'Doctors have become scapegoats of a broken system'

Interview with Vijay Kumar, president of the Resident Doctors' Association

First they wore helmets to work, and now, in the absence of any meaningful security, resident doctors at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences will take taekwondo lessons to handle their attackers. Vijay Kumar, president of the Resident Doctors' Association, tells Veer Arjun Singh why self-defence is not against the code of saving lives. Edited excerpts:

Are doctors being regularly attacked? What are the reasons?

People are frustrated with the quality of health care in this country, the prime cause being infrastructure lapses. If a patient who needs immediate medical attention is not given a bed or a