Srinagar, July 25 -- Doctors at Shri Maharaja Hari Singh (SMHS) hospital in Srinagar called off their strike after police arrested the person who had assaulted a resident doctor in the emergency ward on Wednesday.

The accused has been identified as Abid Hassan Bhat, a resident of Srinagar. He had slapped the resident doctor after his brother-in-law died in the emergency ward. The doctor, Dr Shahnawaz said a patient, aged around 40, had come to the hospital around 12.15 am. "I was at the reception and checked his vitals, which were non-recordable. I sent him to triage within minutes for further investigation. But during resuscitation, the patient was dead within 10-15 minutes. Then an attendant came and slapped me," he said.

An officer a...