India, Nov. 9 -- Three doctors were assaulted by a patient's relative inside the emergency ward of R N Cooper Hospital, Juhu, late on Friday night, prompting resident doctors and interns to suspend duties on Saturday. Over 300 doctors and interns staged a peaceful protest at Cooper Hospital's OPD gate on Saturday evening, while the BMC wing of the Maharashtra Association of Resident Doctors (MARD) warned that if concrete action was not taken by 5 pm on Monday, resident doctors across the municipal hospitals of KEM, Sion, Nair and Cooper would go on mass leave, suspending all non-emergency services.

The police said that the accused, Sameer Abdul Jabbar Shaikh (35), attacked the doctors after his 57-year-old mother, Sayyeda, was declared d...