NHRC seeks action-taken report from Assam govt in doctor assault case

Taking cognisance of a complaint about the assault on a doctor by the relatives of a COVID patient who died at a hospital in Hojai district of Assam, the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) on Friday called for the action taken report from Assam government. According to a notification issued by NHRC, the Chief Secretary […]

IMA President expresses anguish over assault on doctor in Assam, demands hospitals to be declared as ‘protective zones’

Indian Medical Association President Dr JA Jayalal on Wednesday expressed anguish over the incident in which a doctor was assaulted in Assam’s Hojai district and demanded that the Central Government should declare hospitals as a “protective zone”. “Indian Medical Association and the whole fraternity of the country are saddened and anguished to see the brutal […]

24 arrested for assaulting doctor at Covid centre in Assam, CM assures justice

The Assam police in Hojai have arrested at least 24 miscreants in less than 24 hours into the gruesome assault case of a doctor named Seuj Kumar Senapati at a government Covid hospital in Lanka near Nagaon. According to sources, the doctor and some health staff were attacked after a critically ill Covid patient named […]

Amid coronavirus crisis, doctor assaulted by cops in Nagaland’s Wokha

In a case of alleged police high-handedness in Nagaland, a doctor from the state’s Wokha town was assaulted by cops. In his complaint to the SP Wokha, the doctor stated that the incident happened at a local tri-junction while he was returning after buying groceries. He alleged that the police personnel refused to listen to […]

Assam tea garden doctors leave jobs following lynching of senior medic in Teok

Doctors working in tea estates across Assam are walking out of their jobs. Sources told Northeast Live that five doctors in different tea estates across the state have already taken this step as a protest against the recent killing of a senior doctor in the Teok Tea Estate by an irate mob of tea workers. […]

Assam: 10 more arrested in connection with lynching of senior doctor at Teok tea estate

The police have arrested 10 more persons in connection with the Teok Lynching Case, where a senior doctor of the Teok Tea Estate was brutally thrashed to death by an unruly mob on August 31. With the arrest of 10 more persons, the total number of people arrested in the case has now risen to […]

Assault on doctor in Lakhimpur Civil Hospital; one person arrested

At a time when doctors around the nation are staging protest in solidarity with their counterparts in West Bengal, a case of assault has come to fore from Lakhimpur in Assam. A doctor on duty was assaulted at the North Lakhimpur Civil Hospital. The miscreants attacked Dr Jayanta Dutta of the Sonology department inside the […]