Kozhikode
The Indian Medical Association (IMA) has urged the government to declare hospitals as “safe zones” to protect health-care workers and patients, pointing out that over 100 doctors, including women, have been brutally attacked in the past two years in the Kerala.
Samuel Koshy, president, and Joseph Benaven, honourary secretary, Kerala State branch of the IMA, told the media here on Wednesday that doctors, nurses and healthcare workers were being targeted if patients died in the course of the treatment because of their existing health conditions. Anti-social elements and criminal-minded politicians were found to be the culprits in most of these cases. Some other accused were police personnel, they claimed.
