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Yesterday, at Lady Reading Hospital Peshawar, an attendant attacked a doctor.
Not in a street.
Not in a market.
Inside a hospital.
A place where people come to save lives has become a place where doctors now fear for their own safety.
And the most painful part is this:
this is no longer shocking.
It has become routine.
Every few days, another doctor is abused, slapped, dragged, threatened, or beaten. Then everyone condemns it for 24 hours. A few posts are shared. A committee is announced. And then we wait for the next attack.
But tell me honestly:
How long can a doctor treat patients while also fearing the attendant standing behind him?
How can a nurse work in peace when one bad outcome can turn a ward into a mob?
How can any emergency run when doctors are expected to save patients with no beds, no staff, no security, no ventilators, and then also absorb the anger of a failed system?
No doctor creates ICU shortages.
No nurse creates medicine shortages.
No medical officer builds broken district hospitals.
No house officer decides hospital budgets.
But when the system fails, the doctor standing in front becomes the easiest target.
This is not just violence against one doctor.
This is violence against every patient who will need that doctor tomorrow.
Because every time a doctor is attacked, another doctor learns one lesson:
“Do not take risk. Refer the patient. Protect yourself first.”
And if this fear spreads in public hospitals, the biggest victims will not be doctors.
The biggest victims will be poor patients.
Private hospitals can refuse complicated cases.
CMH has controlled entry, security, discipline, and consequences.
But public hospitals take everyone, the poor, the critical, the late, the angry, the hopeless, the referred.
And still we beat the same people who did not abandon us.
This video should not be watched silently.
Share it.
Not to create hate.
Not to defend negligence.
But to demand a system where patients are treated with dignity and doctors work without fear.
We need hospital security.
We need limited attendants.
We need strict punishment for violence.
We need complaint desks, not mobs.
We need more ICU beds, more staff, and functional district hospitals.
A doctor’s white coat is not a punching bag.
Violence will not save your patient.
A better health system will.