NEW DELHI, March 27 -- The manner in which a 59-year-old senior cardiologist was assaulted by a patient's family members in a Kozhikode hospital this March 5, following the unfortunate death of a baby, is rather disturbing. A patient who was under the treatment of the cardiologist's wife, a gynaecologist working in the same hospital, is said to have developed some complication and lost her child during labour.

Accusing the hospital staff of delaying treatment and medical negligence, several relatives of the patient vandalised the hospital and brutally punched the cardiologist who was present there. He was immediately taken to the ICU after he fell unconscious. Following the attack, doctors in Kozhikode went on a day's strike. Six person...