On Tuesday, Deputy Chief Minister C N Ashwath Narayan, said that the Karnataka government will deploy hi-tech mechanism, including artificial intelligenceto keep a check and prevent attacks on doctors in government hospitals.

He told reporters that whatever might be the challenges, technology should be used. Walkie-talkie, facial recognition cameras, artificial intelligence or analytics will be used. He was answering to queries on the ongoing strike by a section of government doctors protesting on recent assault on one of their colleagues at an eye hospital by a few alleged activists of a pro-Kannada outfit over drug reaction in some patients who had underwent cataract surgeries in July this year.

The activists allegedly rushed into the government Minto Eye Hospital and assaulted a doctor. The junior doctors at the hospital had been on the strike since Friday, protesting against this action. Doctors in two other government hospitals had also joined the protest affecting in patient services.

Narayan, who holds the Higher Education and Medical Education portfolios, said that even in the surrounding areas, if people rush in, they will get alerts and the internal security team can be mobilized, along with police and the reserved police.He requested the doctors to end the strike and said theytotally understand the challenges in which doctors are working. Hence, had brought a law in 2009 to provide protection to the doctors.