Patna: Junior doctors at Nalanda Medical College and Hospital (NMCH) resumed work on Tuesday after the hospital administration lodged an FIR against a patient's attendants for misbehaving with a junior doctor and a senior resident on Sunday night.

Attacking doctors is a cognisable offence under the Bihar Medical Institution and Person Protection Act.

NMCH junior doctors' association president Ravi Ranjan Kumar Ranjan said the doctors decided to resume work around 2pm on Tuesday after getting assurance that their demands would be met.

"We had asked for a temporary police outpost and replacement of the security guards," Ravi Ranjan said. "All guards have been asked to vacate the campus. The principal has deputed guards from his office till new security personnel are hired. The superintendent has written to principal secretary, health, to create a temporary outpost on the campus and to the Alamganj police station house in-charge to register a case. We got to know that an FIR has been lodged."

The junior doctors have set the hospital administration a seven-day ultimatum.

On Tuesday, a video went viral on WhatsApp showing a doctor beating up an attendant. The foreword claims the footage was of the NMCH incident. But junior doctors had said one of them and a senior resident were thrashed by drunk attendants of a patient.

NMCH superintendent Anand Prasad Singh said he had not seen the video. Neither had deputy superintendent Gopal Krishna or health principal secretary Sanjay Kumar.

Prodded on whether he had checked CCTV footage of the NMCH incident, Sanjay said he was not supposed to. "A magistrate had visited the hospital. He must have checked it. So far as the NMCH episode is concerned, I can only say that the hospital's working environment needs to improve," Sanjay said.