Mumbai: BMC-run Dr R.N Cooper Hospital is set to appoint a new acting dean within the next week, marking the second such change in recent months. The decision comes in the wake of the assault on three duty doctors in the hospital’s casualty department last week.

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The leadership reshuffle was finalised during a meeting between civic officials and cabinet minister Mangal Prabhat Lodha on Wednesday. Dr Neelam Andrade, who heads BYL Nair Dental Hospital and was earlier appointed acting dean, said, "We will be appointing someone who will be able to attend to Cooper Hospital full-time."

Medical Dialogues had earlier reported that in another shocking incident of violence against medical professionals, a

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