3 resident doctors of SMIMER hospital suspended for sensational patient throwing incident

Surat: Three resident doctors of the Surat Municipal Institute of Medical Education and Research (SMIMER) have been suspended from various activities for six months for throwing a patient out of the hospital in inhuman way in October last year.

The 3 resident doctors, students of surgery department, have been found guilty by the committee constituted to probe the incident.

A patient of the SMC run hospital whose feet was cut in an accident in August this year was put in the dicky of a car by the junior doctors and thrown beside a road. The patient, said to be a resident of Jalandhar in Punjab was later brought back to the hospital through the free ambulance service a day after that in October this year. The CCTV footage of the incident came to fore in January this year triggering widespread condemnation of the incident and heated debate in media over the role of doctors.

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