SHILLONG, JULY 20: In what could only be described as weird, two government doctors attached with the Shillong Civil hospital were arrested when they threatened an outpatient when the latter refused to be admitted in the hospital early Monday morning.
The two government doctors-Dr Willing Pde and Dr Kevin ZM Sangma- were arrested on Monday after the outpatient Pynshailang Kurbah filed an FIR alleging that the doctors threatened him.
Police immediately acted on the FIR and arrested the two doctors and were produced in the court. Both of them have been remanded to three days police custody.
The incident is said to have taken place at around 12.30 am on Monday when Kurbah who stays in Paltan Bazar visited the Shillong Civil Hospital for medical checkup for minor ailment.
After examining the patient, the doctors who were on night duty suggested that he should be admitted.
But Kurbah refused to get himself admitted in the hospital. To the horror of the patient the doctors allegedly under the influence of alcohol threatened to assault him.
“We have registered a case and has arrested the two doctors,” SP (City) Vivek Syiem said.
Syiem also informed that beside threatening the patient, the two doctors also threatened the police personnel from the police booth attached to the Civil hospital when they tried to intervene.
The doctors were produced before court after a medical checkup on them was done at NEIGHRIMS.
