Bolangir: A special team of Bolangir Police Friday arrested two persons from Gochhapada area in Kandhamal district for assaulting Biswaranjan Sahu, a house surgeon of Bhima Bhoi Medical College and Hospital (BBMCH) in Bolangir. The accused were identified as Samir Badamali and Raju Sahu of Bolangir town. This came after scores of house surgeons of BBMCH staged a cease-work protest at the hospital premises demanding the arrest of the miscreants. The medicos have been protesting since Thursday evening’s incident which created tension among the medical students. Wearing bandages on their heads, the surgeons sat on a protest in front of the casualty ward.
On being informed, Bolangir district Collector and SP went to the spot and held discussions with the agitating students. Treatment of patients was hampered at the hospital owing to the agitation of the house surgeons and other students, sources said. Though the superintendent of the medical college persuaded the protesting surgeons to call off the agitation, they continued with their agitation and marched towards the OPD which led to a brief faceoff-like situation with the police. Finally, they relented and withdrew their protest at 2pm and resumed their duties.
Notably, the police team nabbed the accused duo from Kandhamal district and was on its way to Bolangir when reports last came in. The accused will be produced before a court in Bolangir Saturday, police sources said. According to sources, Samir Badamali, a native of Subarnapur district currently residing at College Square in Bolangir town, had brought her ailing wife to the obstetrics and gynaecology department OPD of BBMCH for a check-up.
Two female doctors in the presence of one attendant performed the health check-up of the woman and it was diagnosed that the pregnant woman suffered a miscarriage. After that, the on-duty house surgeon Sahu also conducted a check-up of the woman. This irked the husband of the woman as he alleged that the privacy of his wife was intruded upon. After the incident, the angry husband of the woman along with Raju Sahu, one of his associates, was waiting for the house surgeon’s arrival at Laltikra Grid area, 5 km away from the hospital. In the evening when house surgeon Sahu along with one of his friends was returning to hostel on a bike, they were stopped by the duo. They attacked Sahu leaving him critically injured leading to his admission to the ICU.
