Hyderabad: In view of the Global Hospital, Lakdikapul, private doctors are demanding that, public hospitals must be strengthened and well equipped to deal with terminally ill patients so that private hospitals do not have to face irrepressible relatives.
A senior member of Indian Medical Association (IMA), Dr Mohammed Iqbal Javed said, “These incidents can be prevented only if the culprits will be punished.”
The public hospitals should be well equipped by the government so that they can handle critical cases, he added.
Mr Javed said, “One of the major reasons for such attacks on the private sector is the failure of the public health system to provide proper emergency care. When the relatives pay huge sums of money for medical costs they panic and often attack the staff due to anger.”
Government doctors state that most of the terminally ill patients are sent from private hospitals to government hospitals for treatment.
Dr P. Naik, a senior professor and anesthetist, said, “Irrepressible relatives are a challenge for both government and private doctors. There is no difference in their behaviour.”
Senior doctors of IMA urged police officials that the attackers of Global Hospital have to be booked and punished.
They demanded that Act 11 must be imposed on them which entail jail and also double the compensation of the damaged property.