The law doesn’t protect doctors from violence in India, so hospitals need to step up

Garg, Ishika and Datta, Shayan (2021) The law doesn’t protect doctors from violence in India, so hospitals need to step up. LSE COVID-19 Blog (18 Jun 2021). Blog Entry.

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Abstract

Bereaved relatives have physically attacked health workers in India during the pandemic. Ishika Garg and Shayan Datta say that in the absence of sufficient laws to protect them, hospitals need to get better at identifying the signs of potential violence and respond quickly when it happens.

Item Type:	Online resource (Blog Entry)
Official URL:	https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/covid19/
Additional Information:	© 2021 The Authors
Divisions:	LSE
Subjects:	R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine > RA0421 Public health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicine H Social Sciences > HV Social pathology. Social and public welfare. Criminology
Date Deposited:	17 Aug 2021 14:48
Last Modified:	15 Sep 2023 11:08
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/111109

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