Video: Patient Grabs Woman Doctor By Hair, Bangs Head At Andhra Hospital

The incident at SVIMS, Tirupati, yet again puts under the spotlight the safety of doctors on duty.

Amid the nationwide call for ensuring the safety of doctors in the wake of the rape and murder at Kolkata's RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, a woman junior doctor was attacked by a patient at a hospital in Tirupati. The incident at Sri Venkateswara Institute of Medical Sciences (SVIMS) was captured by a CCTV camera in the hospital.

The CCTV footage shows the attacker grab the doctor by her hair and bang her head on the steel frame of a hospital bed. Others doctors in the ward immediately come to their colleague's rescue and the attacker is overpowered and taken away.