Citation

Chauhan V, Galwankar S, Kumar R, Raina SK, Aggarwal P, Agrawal N, Krishnan SV, Bhoi S, Kalra OP, Soans ST, Aggarwal V, Kubendra M, Bijayraj R, Datta S, Srivastava RP. Int. J. Crit. Illn. Inj. Sci. 2017; 7(2): 79-83.

Affiliation

Sarvodaya Hospital, Bokaro, Jharkhand, India.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2017, Medknow Publications)

DOI

10.4103/IJCIIS.IJCIIS_28_17

PMID

28660160

PMCID

PMC5479080

Abstract

There have been multiple incidents where doctors have been assaulted by patient relatives and hospital facilities have been vandalized. This has led to mass agitations by Physicians across India. Violence and vandalism against health-care workers (HCWs) is one of the biggest public health and patient care challenge in India. The sheer intensity of emotional hijack and the stress levels in both practicing HCWs and patient relative's needs immediate and detail attention. The suffering of HCWs who are hurt, the damage to hospital facilities and the reactionary agitation which affects patients who need care are all together doing everything to damage the delivery of health care and relationship between a doctor and a patient. This is detrimental to India where illnesses and Injuries continue to be the biggest challenge to its growth curve. The expert group set by The Academic College of Emergency Experts and The Academy of Family Physicians of India makes an effort to study this Public Health and Patient Care Challenge and provide recommendations to solve it.

Language: en

Keywords

Doctors; healthcare professionals; violence