Hyderabad, May 25 -- Two doctors' associations condemned the recent attack on a doctor while on duty at Gandhi Hospital by attendants of a patient, calling for the enactment of the Telangana Medicare Service Persons and Medicare Service Institutions (Prevention of Violence and Damage to Property) Act.

The condemnation by the Telangana Junior Doctors Association (TJUD) and the Healthcare Reforms Doctors Association (HRDA) on Monday, May 24, comes a day after a doctor, identified as Shiva Sankar Saguru, was physically assaulted by a woman attendant for allegedly not checking the patient's sugar level.

According to the police, the duty doctor asked the attendant, who was on a video call, to put the phone away and not disturb other patients...