Incident Reports

Doctor beaten by police

2017-11-16

Province 1, Sunsari, Inaruwa

Tushar Jha, a doctor at Inaruwa Hospital was beaten by Inspector of Police on November 16. The police officer was drunk when he beat the police. Nepal Medical Association has come out with press release condemning the act of doctor being beaten. नेपाल चिकित्सक संघ, नारायणी अञ्चल शाखा विरगंज अध्यक्ष डा. जगदीश अग्रवालले विज्ञप्ति जारी गरी इनर्वा अस्पतालका चिकित्सक, स्वास्थ्यकर्मीमाथि भएको हमलाको विरोध गरेका छन् । गत कार्तिक ३० गते इनर्वा अस्पतालका चिकित्सक डा. तुषार झासहित स्वास्थ्यकर्मीमाथि बहालवाला प्रहरी निरीक्षकले डियुटी समयमा मदिरा सेवन गरी हमला गरेको घटना निन्दनीय भएको भन्दै सरकारमार्फत कारबाईको माग गरेका छन् ।
Details and Impacts
Violent / Non-violent Violent
Onesided / Twosided Onesided
Collective / Interpersonal Interpersonal
Primary Form Assault (small group)
Weapons None
Primary Cause Extra-judicial response related to perceived healthcare malpractice/after death of patient
Actor 1 - Number of people 1
Actor 1 - Affiliations Police
Actor 1 - Youth unknown
Actor 2 - Number of people 1
Actor 2 - Affiliation (Target) Health sector/health workers, doctors
Actor 2 - Youth unknown
Local Newspaper - Parsa

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