KOLLAM: The nursing students of the district hospital here staged a protest on Friday against the alleged attack on a male nursing student by a house surgeon on Thursday night. The students under the banner of Kerala Government Student Nurses Association affiliated to the SFI protested in front of the hospital superintendent demanding action against the doctor.
They ended the strike after the doctor tendered an unconditional apology at a meeting convened in the presence of the medical officer and superintendent later. The doctor also got six months’ extension of his house surgency as punishment for the act. The incident took place by 11 p.m. on Thursday. Nursing student Manu Manoj of Arun Bhavan at Koivila in Chavara had taken his aunty to the casualty ward after she suffered from high blood pressure.
“My relatives and I were standing near my aunty inside the casualty. The doctor concerned who was on duty asked us to get out of the room and all except me went out. The doctor shouted at me holding my collars and kicked me out, though I told him that I am a third-year nursing student there,” Manu told DC. The doctor gave an explanation before the inquiry committee saying that he committed the error due to his “wrong mental status” then.
