Doctors at one of Delhi's top government hospitals will be given daily martial¹ arts training in response to a sharp rise in reports of violence against medical practitioners³ in India. 

 

印度德里一所顶尖公立医院的医生将接受日常武术训练，以应对针对医务人员的暴力事件大幅上升的现状。 

 

About 1,500 resident doctors at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (Aiims) in New Delhi will be given taekwondo classes in the hospital's gym every evening from 15 May. 

 

The president of the resident doctors' association at the hospital, Dr Vijay Gurjar, said violence against doctors was growing "and the government is not taking necessary steps to decrease it". 

 

"Prevention is better than the cure, and if the government is not providing adequate security, then you have to take measures to save your life or vital organs," he said. 

 

According to the Lancet medical journal, a 2016 study carried out in a Delhi hospital found that 40% of resident doctors had been exposed to violence at work in the previous 12 months. 

 

The Indian Medical Association (IMA) says 75% of doctors will face physical or verbal violence during their career. Attacks on nurses and other hospital staff are also thought to be endemic but less frequently reported. 

 

Doctors say there are many reasons for the violence, including massive overcrowding in the public health system, which has contributed to a weakening of the bonds between physicians, the people they treat, and their families. 

 

Corruption⁴ and overcharging also mar² many Indians' encounters with the health system.

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