Resident doctors and medical students have been protesting since Saturday after a postgraduate student was allegedly attacked by members of the Karnataka Rakshana Vedike.
Doctors and medical students belonging to the Bangalore Medical College and Research Institute (BMCRI) Resident Doctors’ Association continue to protest and have called for an ‘indefinite boycott’ of outpatient services. The medicos began protesting on Saturday following the alleged attack on a postgraduate student by members of the Karnataka Rakshana Vedike (KRV). Earlier, Deputy Chief Minister C.N. Ashwath Narayan on Sunday announced that the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) would be sent to the hospital for additional security and also stated that CCTV camera installations would be taken up soon and requested the resident doctors to discontinue their protests. It all started on Friday at around 3.30 pm on the premises of Minto Eye Hospital on the BMCRI campus, when members of the KRV confronted a doctor, who is a postgraduate student at BMCRI, for not speaking in Kannada. They allegedly began arguing with the doctor, alleging that a patient who had been one of the victims of the botched cataract surgeries which took place at the hospital in July, had not been compensated for their losses. The discussion soon turned ugly after the group began confronting the doctor for not speaking in Kannada, according to TNIE. The conversation became even more heated and the group members surrounded the resident doctor and allegedly held her by the arm and made her sit on the floor. Doctors alleged that another doctor who was filming the incident was forcibly made to stop. An FIR was registered by police officials at the VV Puram Police Station against unknown members of the KRV after a complaint was filed by Dr HS Satish, dean of BMCRI. Members of the pro-Kannada outfit were at the hospital to support a protest held by 24 patients who developed severe reactions following cataract surgery at the Minto Ophthalmic Hospital. Two of the patients also lost their eyesight due to the incident. The incident occurred on Karnataka Rajyotsava, a day marking the formation of Karnataka state.
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