Doctor arrested for raping, threatening patient in Mumbai
October 14, 2019 13:23 ISTThe 27-year-old woman, a resident of Jogeshwari area, came in contact with the accused - Vanshraj Dwivedi - in 2015, an official at Meghwadi police station said.
The 27-year-old woman, a resident of Jogeshwari area, came in contact with the accused - Vanshraj Dwivedi - in 2015, an official at Meghwadi police station said.
"But, Om Pal -- who was a well-known figure in Deoband -- was so confident about his infallibility that he refused to budge and informed police," News agency IANS quoted police official as saying.
A case has been registered with the doctors demanding arrest of the accused persons. The Federation of Resident Doctors Association (FORDA) has also extended its support to the doctors, demanding strict action in the matter.
A court here has upheld the conviction of a 44-year-old doctor in a case of molesting a woman patient in 2013. A magisterial court had earlier pronounced the accused, Jayant S Jadhav, guilty under Indian Penal Code Section 354 (molestation) and sentenced him to one-year rigorous imprisonment on December 27, 2016.
Following the incident, local residents blocked National Highway 327 demanding the arrest of the criminals.
A class 4-grade woman employee went to Asraf Badar for stomach pain treatment on July 23 at the Ghatshila government hospital of West Singhbhum district in Ranchi. Asraf who works on contract in the hospital allegedly prescribed condoms to the woman.
A 30-year-old woman has been sexually assaulted by a unani doctor at a private hospital here, police said on Thursday.
To save lives, a group of Kashmiri doctors named "Kashmera" based in the US in collaboration with the state government and few NGOs, have launched a programme to provide ambulances to ferry the injured to the two premier hospitals in Srinagar.
The Union Health Ministry has formed a 10-member committee to examine the "pros and cons" of bringing central legislation against the assault on doctors on duty and violence in clinical establishments.
Three people, including a former employee of the victim, were arrested on Sunday in connection with murder of a well-known doctor and social worker in Haryana's Karnal town, police said.
A 56-year-old doctor was shot dead by three motorcycle-borne persons here, the Haryana Police said on Sunday. Rajiv Gupta, who owned a hospital, was shot when he was going towards a market in his car on Saturday and he succumbed to injures at a hospital, police said.
The apex court said it can examine the allegations if some evidence is brought on record by naming certain hospitals which are purportedly declaring patients as brain dead in order to harvest their organs for transplant.
A group of people including the husband and son of woman patient, Rajbala, 45, smashed glass and broke other equipment after they were informed about her death.
Abhishek, son of a truck driver from a small village in Rajasthan, is on his way to achieve his dream of becoming a doctor as he cleared the NEET 2019.
A medico by profession, she will be the 14th incumbent to the post, which was lying vacant for almost a year after the end of tenure of Congress MLC Manikrao Thakre.
The woman doctor was allegedly assaulted by unidentified people at a primary health centre in Seraj, the home assembly constituency of Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur.
The 20-year-old Sathyapriya, a student of Government Arts College, had been suffering from menstrual problem for the last one year and approached the Siddha practitioner here for treatment, after failing to get a cure from different doctors.
The TMC Chief appealed to the doctors to now resume their work as all their demands had been met and thousands of people were awaiting medical treatment.
"There is a complete breakdown of law and order, with reports of mobs attacking doctor hostels with weapons. The government has failed to provide protection and justice to doctors," the statement read. "AIIMS RDA condemns this in words and in spirit. Residents across the country are deeply hurt by these turn of events.
The trio has been accused of alleged ragging, casteist atrocities, mental harassment and professional torture leading to the suicide of a second year Post-Graduate Gynaecology student Tadvi, at the state-run BYL Nair Hospital in Mumbai.
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