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Untitled Carousel Parents of minor who died during treatment at Nair hospital booked for assaulting doctor Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP), Zone 3, Avinash Kumar told Mirror Online on Saturday that the FIR was lodged after the assaulted doctor lodged a complaint against the parents

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Untitled Carousel A new ragging case rocks Nair Hospital The BMC-run Nair hospital has been shaken by a fresh case of ragging. And in a coincidence, the last name of the alleged victim in the latest case is also Tadvi.

More than 500 resident doctors at the BMC-run BYLon Saturday went on a protest and closed down the outpatients department () demanding security in the wake of mounting attacks by patients' relatives.Following the death of a 13-year-old boy, who was admitted at the hospital with, on Saturday, relatives manhandled the doctors on duty. According to the doctors, this was the third such incident in the hospital in the past 10 days.police, which is investigating the matter, toldMirror that Pawan Dattatray Patil was admitted to the hospital last month after the boy was diagnosed with meningitis. Early on Saturday his condition deteriorated and he died."When first-year resident doctors Dr Prajwal Chandra and Dr Kartik Asutkar, who were on duty and treating the patient, broke the news of his death to his parents, the father and other relatives became angry and blamed them. The relatives started abusing the doctors and later slapped them," said an official.They would have continued beating up the doctors if the security guards had not intervened, he said."The boy was critical, and our doctors repeatedly informed the parents about his condition. Our team tried their level best to save the child, but he died. We were fortunate that the security guards acted promptly. An FIR has been lodged," said the dean of the hospital, Dr Ramesh Bharmal.Dr Kalyani Dongre, state president of theAssociation of Resident Doctors (MARD), said they had shut down the OPD for only a day and if their demands were not met they would take further action. "It has been a long-time demand of MARD to recruit more security personnel and increase the number of doctors to lessen the burden of work pressure on doctors. We have also raised a demand to fix the visiting hours and make stringent rules to regulate pass system, appoint counsellor of relatives, etc," the statement said.The police registered a case against two people under various sections. No arrests have been made so far.