Updated On: 03 September, 2022 02:11 PM IST | New Delhi | PTI
The plea filed by the Delhi Medical Association and Dr Satyajit Borah, who is the president of Assam State Branch of Indian Medical Association, also seeks directions to the Centre and states to have a distress fund to grant compensation to the victim or family of the deceased healthcare workers in such violence

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The Supreme Court is scheduled to hear on Monday a plea seeking directions to authorities to ensure adequate security at hospitals and medical centres to prevent attacks on doctors and healthcare workers by relatives of patients and others.
A bench of Justices S K Kaul and Abhay S Oka is likely to take up the matter.