Bhopal: Taking cognisance of the incident where a senior doctor of a Hospital submitted his resignation over the mistreatment of the hospital staff, Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Saturday termed it a shameful incident, adding the COVID-19 pandemic cannot be tackled without the cooperation of people and doctors.
While addressing a press conference, the Chief Minister said, "It is very shameful that some people treated the doctors and hospital staff rudely, thereby creating a ruckus at Bhopal's JP Hospital. No person has any right to mistreat our doctors."
"Due to today's incident, a senior doctor of JP Hospital was left extremely distressed and handed over his resignation. We are living in a civilized society. At this time, when there is a need to stand together, such a situation is neither in the public interest nor with this attitude- COVID-19 can be tackled", he said in Hindi.
A doctor in a government hospital in Madhya Pradesh resigned on Saturday after some Congress leaders, including former minister PC Sharma and corporator Guddu Chauhan, allegedly misbehaved with him following the death of a patient.
A video of the incident, which went viral on social media, showed Congress leaders shouting at Dr Yogendra Shrivastava.
Kin of the deceased Shamsher claimed that they were told that there is no space in the Intensive Care Unit. He said that the doctor was not ready to talk to the Congress MLAs and they were told to shift the patient to the private hospital.