Govt may consider introducing legal safeguards for healthcare workers: parliamentary panel

Govt may consider introducing legal safeguards for healthcare workers: parliamentary panel

‘Healthcare professionals are vulnerable to “violent attacks” by relatives of patients, in cases where patients die during treatment.’ Illustration: Satheesh Vellinezhi The government may consider introducing appropriate legal safeguards for healthcare workers, who at times face violence from relatives or attendants of patients, a parliamentary panel has said. The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Home Affairs … Read more