Woman, Asked To Leave From Covid Ward, Slaps Delhi Hospital Doctor: Police

The doctor, in her complaint, alleged that she was slapped by the wife of a COVID positive patient who was admitted at the hospital.

A woman has been charged for allegedly assaulting a GTB hospital doctor who had asked her to leave from the ward where COVID patients were admitted, the police said on Sunday. The incident took place on Saturday when the doctor who was on emergency duty at a COVID ward in Guru Teg Bahadur hospital, they said. The doctor, in her complaint, alleged that she was slapped by the wife of a COVID positive patient who was admitted at the hospital. The woman was with her husband in the COVID ward. She was asked to leave since only patients who are admitted are allowed. But the accused refused which led to an argument during which she slapped the doctor, the police said.