Private hospitals in Mahabubnagar suspended OP and emergency services on Tuesday, protesting the assault on a doctor by relatives of a deceased patient. Tensions escalated after the hospital sought additional payment and the patient, undergoing treatment, died post-surgery.
The police, who tried to calm down the relatives, had failed to control the situation. The situation still remained tense as a huge number of Srinivas’ kin and friends gathered at the hospital
