Shocking twist to the Dhule doctor assault incident.
Pradeep Sadashiv Vetale, one of the accused in the Dhule case hung himself in the toilet of the city police station in Dhule, Maharashtra in a case of custodial death.
Police say he was around 22 years old and was the pillion rider with the patient who had sustained head injuries on Sunday. He was one of the nine arrested for thrashing senior resident doctor Rohan Mamunkar at the Government Medical College in Dhule.
"He went to the toilet around 4.00 pm and hung himself using a bed sheet. Earlier in the day, he along with four others were presented in court today and remanded to police custody," confirmed Chandrakant Gawali, additional superintendent of police in Dhule.
An orthopaedic senior resident doctor, Dr. Rohan Mamunkar, was beaten black and blue after he asked family members of a patient to take him to another centre since there was no neurosurgeon on duty. The incident took place on Sunday night at the Goverment Medical College (GMC) in Dhule, Maharashtra when a patient was brought in with a head injury.
When the orthopaedic resident doctor informed the family members that he would have to be taken to another tertiary care centre, a mob of over 20 relatives attacked him. The CCTV footage shows them hitting the resident doc with rods, among other things.
The doctor has sustained injuries on his abdomen, chest and head. He has also suffered an injury to the orbital bone that is present in the socket of the eye. The doctor who is now admitted in the ICU, has suffered loss of vision in one eye.
The Maharashtra Association of Resident Doctors (MARD) has decided that they will protest by wearing black ribbons to work on Tuesday and also conduct candle light marches.
Dr Yashvardhan Kabra, president of the Maharashtra Association of Resident Doctors and third-year PG student at KEM Hospital, Mumbai, said, "As of now, Dhule doctors are going to go on a mass bunk. Central MARD will be protesting today by wearing black ribbons and organising a candle march. We will plan further action soon."
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