Lok Nayak hospital has deployed 50 marshals at the hospital to prevent attack on its doctors by patient’s attendants. The marshals will be positioned outside the main emergency and gynaecology unit where maximum such incidences have taken place in recent past.

Dr J C Passey, medical director of Lok Nayak hospital, said the decision has been taken with the approval of the lieutenant governor’s office.

“We had met the chief secretary with the demands of the resident doctors last month, following attack on two resident doctors who suffered multiple fractures after an attack by a patient’s attendants. He agreed to the need for more security personnel and gave the approval,” Dr Passey said.