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Chauhan V, Galwankar S, Kumar R, et al. The 2017 Academic College of Emergency Experts and Academy of Family Physicians of India position statement on preventing violence against health-care workers and vandalization of health-care facilities in India. Int J Crit Illn Inj Sci. 2017;7(2):79-83doi: 10.4103/IJCIIS.IJCIIS_28_17.
Chauhan, V., Galwankar, S., Kumar, R., Raina, S. K., Aggarwal, P., Agrawal, N., Krishnan, S. V., Bhoi, S., Kalra, O. P., Soans, S. T., Aggarwal, V., Kubendra, M., Bijayraj, R., Datta, S., & Srivastava, R. P. (2017). The 2017 Academic College of Emergency Experts and Academy of Family Physicians of India position statement on preventing violence against health-care workers and vandalization of health-care facilities in India. International journal of critical illness and injury science, 7(2), 79-83. https://doi.org/10.4103/IJCIIS.IJCIIS_28_17
Chauhan, Vivek, et al. "The 2017 Academic College of Emergency Experts and Academy of Family Physicians of India position statement on preventing violence against health-care workers and vandalization of health-care facilities in India." International journal of critical illness and injury science vol. 7,2 (2017): 79-83. doi: https://doi.org/10.4103/IJCIIS.IJCIIS_28_17
Chauhan V, Galwankar S, Kumar R, Raina SK, Aggarwal P, Agrawal N, Krishnan SV, Bhoi S, Kalra OP, Soans ST, Aggarwal V, Kubendra M, Bijayraj R, Datta S, Srivastava RP. The 2017 Academic College of Emergency Experts and Academy of Family Physicians of India position statement on preventing violence against health-care workers and vandalization of health-care facilities in India. Int J Crit Illn Inj Sci. 2017 Apr-Jun;7(2):79-83. doi: 10.4103/IJCIIS.IJCIIS_28_17. PMID: 28660160; PMCID: PMC5479080.
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Int J Crit Illn Inj Sci. 2017 Apr-Jun;7(2):79-83. doi: 10.4103/IJCIIS.IJCIIS_28_17.

The 2017 Academic College of Emergency Experts and Academy of Family Physicians of India position statement on preventing violence against health-care workers and vandalization of health-care facilities in India.

International journal of critical illness and injury science

Vivek Chauhan, Sagar Galwankar, Raman Kumar, Sunil Kumar Raina, Praveen Aggarwal, Naman Agrawal, S Vimal Krishnan, Sanjeev Bhoi, O P Kalra, Santosh T Soans, Vandana Aggarwal, Mohan Kubendra, R Bijayraj, Sumana Datta, R P Srivastava

Affiliations

  1. Department of Emergency Medicine, Dr. RPGMC Kangra at Tanda, Himachal Pradesh, India.
  2. Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Florida, Jacksonville, FL, USA.
  3. Academy of Family Physicians of India, New Delhi, India.
  4. Department of Community Medicine, Dr. RPGMC Kangra at Tanda, Himachal Pradesh, India.
  5. Department of Emergency Medicine, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India.
  6. Department of Emergency Medicine, Jubilee Mission Medical College and Research Institute, Thrissur, Kerala, India.
  7. Department of Emergency Medicine, Jai Prakash Narayan Apex Trauma Centre, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India.
  8. Vice Chancellor, Pandit BD Sharma University of Health Sciences, Rohtak, Haryana, India.
  9. Pediatrics, A.J Institute of Medical Sciences, Mangalore, Karnataka, India.
  10. Department of Medicine, Fortis Hospital Shalimar Bagh, New Delhi, India.
  11. Private Practice, Family Physician, Bangaluru, Karnataka, India.
  12. Department of Family Medicine, MIMS Hospital, Kochi, Kerala, India.
  13. Department of Family Medicine, West Bengal, India.
  14. Sarvodaya Hospital, Bokaro, Jharkhand, India.

PMID: 28660160 PMCID: PMC5479080 DOI: 10.4103/IJCIIS.IJCIIS_28_17

Abstract

There have been multiple incidents where doctors have been assaulted by patient relatives and hospital facilities have been vandalized. This has led to mass agitations by Physicians across India. Violence and vandalism against health-care workers (HCWs) is one of the biggest public health and patient care challenge in India. The sheer intensity of emotional hijack and the stress levels in both practicing HCWs and patient relative's needs immediate and detail attention. The suffering of HCWs who are hurt, the damage to hospital facilities and the reactionary agitation which affects patients who need care are all together doing everything to damage the delivery of health care and relationship between a doctor and a patient. This is detrimental to India where illnesses and Injuries continue to be the biggest challenge to its growth curve. The expert group set by The Academic College of Emergency Experts and The Academy of Family Physicians of India makes an effort to study this Public Health and Patient Care Challenge and provide recommendations to solve it.

Keywords: Doctors; healthcare professionals; violence

Conflict of interest statement

There are no conflicts of interest.

References

  1. Indian Heart J. 2015 Jul-Aug;67(4):289-92 - PubMed

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