Doctors participate in a rally to show solidarity to protest against an attack on intern junior doctor in West Bengal at AIIMS in New Delhi on June 14, 2019. PTI file photo
Tribune News Service
New Delhi, September 2
The central government on Monday finalised a Bill that will penalise grievous assault on doctors with a jail term of up to 10 years and a fine up to Rs 10 lakh.
The minimum jail term the bill moots is three years, with a fine of not less than Rs 2 lakh.
The development comes a few days after a doctor was fatally assaulted by some enraged tea workers at a tea estate in Assam after the death of a patient. The development also comes a two months after doctors held protests in West Bengal and across the country to ask for better working conditions and protection against such assault. The June protests were triggered after two doctors were brutally assaulted at the NRS Medical College and Hospital by the family members of a patient.
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