Rewa: Video Shows Scuffle Outside Dressing Room at Gandhi Memorial Hospital

A video that has circulated online shows a scuffle outside a dressing room at the Gandhi Memorial Hospital in Rewa, Madhya Pradesh. Doctors, medical staff and other people can be seen in the confrontation, and a doctor and a nurse were reportedly assaulted.

What triggered the fight and who started it is not known from the available reports. The video was posted on X on October 6 by Dr Mohammad Momin Khan, who tagged the Governor and the Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh. In his post he argued that video recording inside hospitals is being misused to harass medical staff.

The report does not say whether a police complaint has been filed or whether the hospital administration has taken any action. Readers should treat the clip as an unverified record of one incident until the hospital or the police give an account.

The incident comes amid a series of reported attacks on health workers in the state. In August, relatives of a 60-year-old woman who died in the ICU of a government super specialty hospital in Indore allegedly assaulted doctors and damaged equipment. In June, the in-charge block medical officer of the Alot Civil Hospital was allegedly beaten by a group on hospital premises, and services were suspended in protest.

Gandhi Memorial Hospital serves patients from Rewa and surrounding districts of the Vindhya region, so the safety of its staff directly affects patient care. Doctors' groups have repeatedly asked for stronger security at government hospitals, while patient families often complain about delays and lack of communication. Any official inquiry should look at both sides and the circumstances shown in the video.