Pune: Police on Wednesday booked Arti Kondhare, a local BJP corporator, for allegedly slapping a woman doctor working at Sasoon Government Hospital here. Police have registered an FIR against Kondhare.
The incident took place on Tuesday night when the BJP corporator took a patient for treatment to the hospital. It is alleged that Kondhare assaulted Dr Snehal Khandagale, who was on duty, when the preference was not given to her patient's treatment.
As reported, Kondhare's patient was given the first aid and the doctor on duty told her that further treatment would be decided after the arrival of the magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) report.
Dr Murlidhar Tambe, Dean, Sasoon Government Hospital, termed the incident as unfortunate.
He told media: " On late Tuesday night at around 12 pm to 1 am, around 25 patients along with Dr snehal Khandagale were present in the emergency ward."
"Meanwhile, Arti asked the doctor to treat the patient for the treatment, who had met with a road accident. Dr Khandagale asked Arti to wait for sometime as the patient's MRI report was awaited," he said.
"However, Arti asked the doctor to treat the patient brought by her first and started making a video when the doctor refused. Meanwhile, Kondhare started shooting a video which objected by Dr Snehal, saying that any kind of shooting inside the emergency ward is not allowed, at which Arti slapped the doctor."
