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No arm-twisting, no undue favours!
IT?S A lesson for those seeking undue favours from staff at Government hospitals or, who think women can be manouevred! A patient, lawyer by profession no less, had to tender a written apology after a brawl with a woman staff member at Balrampur Hospital at the Medicine Distribution counter on Saturday.
IT’S A lesson for those seeking undue favours from staff at Government hospitals or, who think women can be manouevred!
A patient, lawyer by profession no less, had to tender a written apology after a brawl with a woman staff member at Balrampur Hospital at the Medicine Distribution counter on Saturday.
The brawl took place when the lawyer stepped out from the queue and entered the room to buy medicine. He was expecting “preferential treatment” since he happened to be a lawyer. After a heated argument, the woman deputed at the counter, agreed to give him medicine but that encouraged the lawyer to put up another demand. He wanted 10 days’ medicines while the limit was for five days unless the Hospital Superintendent gave instructions to that effect in writing.
On being refused, the lawyer caught the woman by hand, in response to which, she locked up the counter and rushed to the hospital’s Chief Medical Superintendent (CMS) Dr GK Tripathi. “When I reached the counter, lawyer Satyendra had been locked up inside the room by the crowd and a large number of lawyers had been called. Cops reached the spot too,” Dr Tripathi said.
Only when the lawyer gave a written apology to the hospital staff was he allowed to go. “We never wanted confrontation but to teach such patients a lesson and to keep up the morale of the employees, the apology was necessary,” said the CMS. The lawyer was a patient of the Cardiology Department.
