Overview
- Relatives attacked four resident doctors at KB Bhabha Hospital in Kurla late Wednesday after a 29-year-old patient died following an emergency Caesarean section.
- According to the hospital’s report, the woman was admitted at 38 weeks on May 12, developed breathlessness and low oxygen on May 13, was put on a ventilator, and was declared dead that night.
- Kurla police registered an FIR on Thursday and booked the assailants under sections 130 and 221 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, which is India’s new national criminal code.
- The complaint says the ICU was vandalised and the doctors were beaten, pushed to the floor, and threatened with rape and murder, with one doctor’s head struck against a wall.
- Hospital officials said security and on-duty police failed to contain the crowd, resident doctors briefly paused OPD work, senior officers later visited with security assurances, and medical associations called for fast-tracked cases, trained guards, CCTV, controlled entry, and clear response plans across civic hospitals.