TERROR struck at the Emergency Wing of the Civil Hospital, Phase VI, Mohali, when a group of over 24 youngsters, brandishing swords, gandasi, and rods, attacked two youths who had come to the Emergency with an injured friend. The two were seriously injured and had to be admitted to the PGI.
The youth, who was brought for treatment, had earlier been attacked by the same group in Sector 70 Mohali today. All of them are students of Chandigarh Engineering College, Landran.
According to eye-witnesses and the doctor on emergency duty, Navraj Singh was brought by Harmeet Singh and Sandeep Singh of Mohali for treatment and the hospital staff was preparing to give him stitches in the Emergency Ward while the two youngsters waited outside.
Suddenly, a group of over two dozen youngsters entered with weapons and attacked Harmeet from all sides. The staff attending to him fled.
When his friend Sandeep tried to intervene, he was also attacked. When Harmeet ran to save his life, the attackers followed him, injuring him on the head, forearms, back, shoulders and legs, and he fell on the floor unconscious, in a pool of blood.
The other boy Sandeep, too, was injured but he managed to lock himself up in the bathroom.
Navraj Singh, a patient who was in the Emergency Ward and one more associate of the three, who had gone to buy medicines for Navraj, were unhurt.
Navraj got injuries on his chin and have been given stitches for the same. Harmeet was referred to PGI in serious condition while Sandeep was being given treatment in the hospital.
Police reached the Civil Hospital but by then the attackers had fled from the spot. Police are investigating the matter.
The terrified staff of the Emergency Ward, complained about the lack of security for hospital staff even though they deal with all kinds of medico-legal cases in which there are high chances of attack. They demanded security, specially in the night hours, for the staff.
Meanwhile, though Harmeet was referred to PGI and was taken there in the ambulance of the Civil Hospital, Harmeet’s relatives alleged that the ambulance driver on duty was heavily drunk and even misbehaved with the relatives.
Posted By Staff Reporter
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