The resident doctors of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) run Sion hospital in Mumbai on Monday held a silent march to protest attacks on medical professionals, reported the PTI.

In the early hours of Sunday, a woman doctor was assaulted at the hospital by drunk relatives of a patient, the incident coming amid massive nationwide protests against the rape-murder of a postgraduate trainee doctor on August 9 in Kolkata`s RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, according to the PTI.