Junior doctors stopped working at the emergency services department at state-run NRS Hospital yesterday for several hours in protest against alleged assault on their colleagues, including a woman doctor, by relatives of a patient who died in the facility. Hospital sources said a critically ill patient was brought to the emergency ward by a group of about 30 people this afternoon.

The 40-year-old patient Pervez Hussein was recommended a CT scan and he died while being taken for the test. The people accompanying him then went on the rampage and allegedly assaulted the junior doctors present, including a woman, the sources said.