Services disrupted at JNM following 'assault' of junior

Services at the Out Patients' Department in the College of Medicine and JNM Hospital, Kalyani in Nadia district was disrupted today in the wake of protest by junior doctors against the alleged assault by some local chemists.
Hospital Principal Shantanu Banerjee said a complaint was lodged with police by hospital authorities after which officers from Kalyani police station and the local administration held a meeting with the doctors and hospital administration at the Medical college.
The junior doctors were protesting against 'assault' by some local chemists last midnight.
The doctors alleged some chemist shop owners near the hospital yesterday night assaulted some of their friends as they were sipping tea outside the hospital compound blaming them of writing generic names of medicines available from fair price medicine shop in the hospital complex and thus leading to the fall in business in private chemist shops.

A police officer said a complaint has been received and security in the hospital was being stepped up.
The Principal said, "The police and administration have assured to give fulllproof security to the junior doctors."
A section of junior doctors alleged some of the attackers yesterday night also brandished firearm but this was not corroborated by the hospital or police.