Nagaon, 6
June: A picture of Dr Bhogeswari Phukoni holding a stick while monitoring
patients has been circulating on social media. Fear of lynching? Assam doctor
takes up stick for self-defence. Guwahati: After the incident of Hojai doctor’s
assault, a doctor in Assam’s Nagaon district took a stick for self-defence
while writing a prescription. A picture of a Dr Bhogeswari Phukoni holding a
stick while monitoring patients has been circulating on social media. This
comes after the incident where a young doctor was brutally beaten by a mob and relatives
of a Covid-19 patient after the patient had died at Odali Covid-19 care center
in the Hojai district. Reportedly, after the COVID-19 patient dies at the
centre, the relatives of the deceased patient brutally beaten the doctor
identified as Dr Seuj Kumar Senapati. A video of the incident also went viral
on social media where some people were seen attacking the young doctor and
kicking him. At least 24 people were arrested in connection with the alleged
assault on the doctor.
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