Patna: The Patna Medical College and Hospital (PMCH) administration enforced the two-attendant per patient norm on Monday a day after around 20 attendants of a patient created a ruckus when a road accident victim died.

On Sunday, around 20 attendants of Siddharth Kumar from Sitamarhi, who died following a road accident, created an uproar in the hospital's emergency wing. They first got into a brawl with a doctor and then looked for other doctors on duty but the doctors escaped by locking themselves up inside an operation theatre.

On Monday, the PMCH administration issued orders to the chief security officer to strictly implement the one patient-two attendants norm in the hospital's emergency wing. Security personnel posted outside the emergency wing were found allowing only two attendants per patient.

The hospital's Junior Doctors Association (JDA) expressed happiness over beefing up of security on the premises but said the security personnel should remain vigilant in future too.

"Today (Monday), JDA members met principal Vijay Kumar Gupta and superintendent Deepak Tandon and we withdrew the call, we had given earlier, for a strike in case our demands are not met within 24 hours," JDA president Vinay Kumar said. "The hospital's security has been strengthened. We hope the security remains effective in the coming days and the one patient-two attendant norm is strictly implemented. We also demand arrest of those who created a ruckus at the hospital under the Bihar Medical Service Institution and Person Protection Act."

PMC principal Vijay Kumar Gupta said he had directed the chief security officer to keep security tight in the emergency wing besides the emergency wings of the paediatrics and gynaecology department, which run in separate buildings. "In fact the chief security officer has been asked to take at least 10 rounds in the hospital's emergency wings every day. We have also checked the hospital's central alarm system. It is working smoothly. The claim by medicos that it was not properly working is false," Gupta said. He said he had written to superintendent Tandon asking him to install signboards saying only two attendants per patient can enter the emergency wing.