AURANGABAD: Following the growing incidents of attacks on resident doctors the Maharashtra Association Resident Doctors (MARD) rued that the Directorate of Medical Education and research (DMER) despite its assurance about nine months back to allow only two relatives with one patient has not yet introduced it at the state-run government medical college and hospitals.This came after a first year resident doctor from medicine department at Sion Hospital, in Mumbai was man-handled by relatives of patient who was critical and suffering from dilated cardiomyopathy. The incident took place on Wednesday night. “The doctor who was assaulted is still in state of shock and fearing for his life. An FIR has been lodged in this regard,” said MARD president Sagar Mundada.He said “in government hospitals, resident doctors form the main workforce and bear the brunt of relatives’ ire. Basic problem is that the doctors have long duty hours and with the large number of patients present, they have no time to counsel the relatives.’’``We have raised the issue of security personnel with DMER repeatedly. In majority of hospitals the security personnel are generally untrained to handle such situation. They just add up to the numbers,” he said.“As regards security measures, we have demanded DMER to introduce a simple measure of "one patient, 2 relatives" which will help to prevent assaults on doctors. It is almost always that a mob gets out of control and add to the chaos without knowing the ground reality,” he added.