With yet another incident of patients’ kin assaulting doctors occurring in Nagpur yesterday (see box), the Maharashtra Association of Resident Doctors (MARD) has blamed the state government and the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) for not fulfilling the promises they made over four months back to better security arrangements at Mumbai medical colleges.

SOS: Maharashtra Association of Resident Doctors has been demanding better security for doctors for a while. File pic