CHENNAI: Dr J Balaji (53), a medical oncologist at the Kalaignar Centenary Super Specialty Hospital (KCSSH) at Guindy in Chennai, was stabbed seven times on Wednesday allegedly by the son of a patient over grievances regarding the cancer treatment offered to his mother at the facility.

The Tamil Nadu Government Doctors Association has gone on a state-wide strike. Barring emergency services, doctors would stay away from work at all government hospitals, including PHCs.

A Chennai oncologist, Dr. Balaji Jaganathan, was critically injured after being stabbed multiple times by a former patient's son. The assailant, Vignesh, attacked the doctor at Kalaignar Multi-Speciality Hospital due to grievances related to his mother's cancer treatment.

A government doctor was stabbed seven times with a knife by a patient's son at Kalaignar Centenary Hospital in Chennai on Wednesday, police said. The doctor, Dr Balaji Jaganathan, is currently receiving treatment in the ICU to recover from the assault,

The video, now going viral, showed the accused Vignesh covertly fishing out a knife after the crime, wiping it and then hiding it to his right. He then calmly walks and throws the knife away. "He cut him," a voice in the background can be heard repeatedly ...

An oncologist at Chennai's Kalaignar Centenary Super-Specialty Hospital, Dr Balaji Jaganathan, was seriously injured in a knife attack by a patient's relative dissatisfied with the treatment his mother received.

Dr Balaji Jagannathan was stabbed seven times in the Kalaignar Centenary Hospital in Guindy, Chennai, by the son of a patient.