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.
Hundreds of the junior doctors from Osmania Medical College (OMC), Gandhi Medical College, NIMS, Punjagutta and ESIC, Sanathnagar participated in a huge protest rally that was held between 9 am and 12 noon at Necklace Road.
