Medical staff at BMC-run Bhabha Hospital went on strike for almost three hours yesterday to protest an assault on their colleague by relatives of a patient who had died in the hospital.

Grief turned into a violent attack on Wednesday when relatives of Sayyed Ayaz Sarifuddin wrecked hospital property. The relatives broke the windows and other equipment inside the ICU of the hospital and also punched and kicked an on-duty doctor and a security guard.