A junior resident doctor from the Department of Paediatrics, PGIMER, Chandigarh was assaulted allegedly by the attendants of a patient. According to the FIR, a doctor requested the junior resident doctor to help secure a difficult IV cannula for the baby of Prabhleen Kaur, who is currently under treatment in the NNN-ICU. At about 11.40 am, the nursing officer informed that the child developed bruises on the neck, and Kaur alleged that the bruises were caused by the junior resident and threatened that she would call her relatives. Her relatives, about 4-5 in number, came at around 12.20 pm and started beating the junior resident, the FIR claimed. Further, the uncle held the doctor’s collar and hand and started to drag him outside the NNN ICU. The mother slapped him multiple times and kicked him, and the junior resident escaped from them after 10 minutes and went inside the ICU, according to the FIR. Story continues below this ad Upon learning of the incident, representatives of the Association of Resident Doctors (ARD) reached the site …