Police have arrested the three people involved in the attack.
A doctor at a Gujarat hospital was allegedly beaten up after he asked a patient's family members to remove their slippers before entering the emergency room. The incident took place at a private hospital in Bhavnagar's Sihor on Saturday when the accused arrived at the hospital for treatment of a woman who had sustained a head injury.
Police have arrested the three people involved in the attack.
In a video recorded on the CCTV in the emergency room, a few men are seen standing next to the woman on the bed. A few seconds later, the doctor – Jaideepsinh Gohil – enters the room and asks them to take off their shoes.
They then get into a heated argument before the doctor is attacked by the accused men. They continued to beat him even as the woman lying on the bed and the nursing staff in the room tried to intervene.
Medicines and other equipment in the room were also damaged in the fight.
An official said the accused, Hiren Dangar, Bhavdeep Dangar and Kaushik Kuvadiya, have been arrested under Sections 115 (2) (act with intent to cause hurt), 352 (intentional insult with intent to provoke breach of peace), 351 (3) (criminal intimidation) and other relevant provisions of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS).
The attack came amid nationwide outrage over the rape and murder of a junior doctor at the RG Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata last month.
With inputs from Mahendra Prasad
