KOLKATA – Two doctors on evening duty at a government hospital in Maharashtra were stabbed and seriously injured by a patient in January 2023. Four months later, a 23-year-old doctor in Kerala was stabbed to death with scissors by a man she had been treating.
Then, in September the same year, an agitated patient in Delhi attacked his doctor with a screwdriver, leaving him with injuries to his neck, abdomen and fingers.
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