The development comes after a 73-year-old doctor of a tea estate in Assam’s Jorhat district succumbed to his injuries after being allegedly assaulted by a mob of 250 garden workers.
A mob of 250 garden workers assaulted the elderly doctor following the death of one of their colleagues who was undergoing treatment at a hospital in the plantation.
The NMC Bill, which seeks to replace the existing Medical Council of India with the proposed National Medical Commission, is slated to be tabled in the Rajya Sabha today after the Lok Sabha passed it on 29 July.
The protesting doctors have alleged that Section 32 of the proposed NMC Bill will intensify quackery by rural medical practitioners, private medical practitioners and others.
More than 30,000 teachers employed in Shishu Shiksha Kendras and Madhyamik Shiksha Kendras, earlier in March, blocked the road to Bikash Bhavan demanding that their honorariums be increased.
The petition filed by advocate Alok Srivastava cited a study by the Indian Medical Association (IMA), stating that more than 75 per cent of doctors across the country have faced some form of violence.
The doctors began the protest after an intern at the NRS Medical College and Hospital was seriously injured following a clash between junior doctors and relatives of a patient who died.
Nearly 300 doctors have tendered their resignations protesting the assault on doctors at Kolkata’s Nil Ratan Sircar Medical College and Hospital.
The impasse at NRS began a day after a doctor suffered serious injuries to his skull when relatives of a 75-year-old patient clashed with doctors alleging that the patient died because of negligence.
The protests began after a patient's relatives assaulted the doctors at NRS Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata on Monday.
