Chhattisgarh brings in law to curb attacks on doctors

He said the doctors and other medical service personnel were scared to attend duties whenever such incidents took place,leading to inconvenience to other patients.

There were cases when relatives of patients and others created trouble following death of patients alleging that it was caused due to negligence on the part of doctors and other medical staff, he said,adding that the law was aimed at curbing such tendencies.

BJP legislator Krishnamurthy Bandhi,while supporting the Bill,drew the attention of the minister towards exploitation by private nursing homes,hospitals and other medical institutions saying that there had been instances of patients relatives indulging in violence and causing damage to property after the hospitals refused to release the body of the dead till they cleared their exorbitant bills. The public is bound to react violently in such emotive situations, he said,adding that the state government should also make stringent laws to deal with such unscrupulous hospital and medical institutions.

Agrawal assured the House that he would bring the Chhattisgarh Nursing Home Act during the next session to regulate private hospitals and medical institutions.