Agartala, April 13 (TIWN / IANS) Doctors and staff at government hospitals in Tripura on Friday threatened to resign en-masse demanding action against people who thrashed a surgeon at the Indira Gandhi Memorial (IGM) Hospital here.

A doctor of a government hospital in Agartala, Tripura was brutally beaten up by family members of a woman who died in the labour room of the hospital on Friday, as per reports.

The surgeon, Dipankar Debnath, of Indira Gandhi Memorial (IGM) Hospital in Agartala was beaten up till he fell unconscious was then admitted to Govind Ballabh Pant Medical College and Hospital in the city with serious injuries but is out of danger now.

Protesting against the incident, doctors and staff of government hospitals in Tripura have threatened to resign en-masse demanding action against the people who beat up the surgeon.