Patan Hospital doctors stage demonstration demanding security

Doctors serving at the Patan Hospital in Lalitpur have staged a demonstration shutting down all the services except for emergency demanding security.

The doctors staged the demonstration saying that the relatives of the patients physically assaulted the doctors and health workers working at the hospital.

Krishna Nagarkoti (67) of Makwanpur and Janamaya Rai (97) of Okhaldhunga had died recently while undergoing treatment at the hospital.

Following the incident, the relatives of the deceased physically assaulted the doctors and medical staff.

The doctors carrying placards staged the demonstration demanding that the violence against the health workers be stopped.

Patan Hospital doctor Bimal Pandey said that the doctors staged the protest demanding security.

They said that they could not provide regular services until the guilty is brought the book.