West Bengal has a long and sordid history of violence against doctors and medical practitioners. In the last two years itself, at least five such cases were reported from private and public hospitals.
In 2018, the death of an 82-year-old woman brought an angry mob to the Peerless Hospital in Kolkata, that vandalised the emergency department of the busy medical institute. In 2017, a senior medical practitioner in an upscale private hospital narrowly survived a murderous attack by the family of a patient who had died under his supervision.