Health Min orders increased security at Central hospitals

The Union Health Ministry has ordered a 25 per cent increase in security deployment at all Central government hospitals, officials announced on Monday.

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This decision comes in response to ongoing protests by resident doctors demanding a central law following the alleged rape and murder of a trainee doctor at a Kolkata hospital.

In addition to enhancing standard security protocols, the ministry will approve the deployment of marshals based on individual hospital requests after conducting security assessments.

However, official sources suggest that introducing a central law based on the RG Kar case “will not make any huge difference,” as the incident was not a case of patient-doctor violence.