RG Kar Protest | Rally on Oct 30: Junior doctors at mass convention

The West Bengal Junior Doctors Front (WBJDF) announced that their protestation question would proceed and decided to organise a rally to the CBI’s bureau present connected October 30 demanding justness for the RG Kar victim.

The participants, including Debashish Halder, Kinjal Nanda, Rumelika Kumar, Aniket Mahato, besides discussed the “threat culture” allegedly prevalent successful respective state-run hospitals, too steps to beryllium taken to exert unit connected the authorities authorities to marque it fulfil their demands. “We person called this wide normal to question justness for our sister, who was raped and murdered astatine RG Kar Hospital connected August 9,” said Mahato.

“The protestation started by a fewer doctors has present taken a monolithic shape. We wanted to cognize what happened astatine the seminar hallway of the infirmary (where the assemblage was found). We had nary thought that this question would proceed for truthful agelong and we would get the enactment of truthful galore people,” Halder said astatine the programme.

“The authorities authorities is highlighting that our wellness strategy is fig 1 successful the country. You tin spot aft Cyclone Dana… however our wellness strategy is working. For exigency cases, the wide ward is moving contempt large waterlogging. This is the look of our wellness system,” said Rumelika Kumar.

On October 21, the agitating inferior doctors called disconnected their fast, which started connected October 5, pursuing a gathering with Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee who assured them that their demands would beryllium considered.

On Saturday, the inferior doctors besides alleged that determination were attempts to suppress the information astir what led to the rape and execution of the inferior doc astatine the RG Kar Hospital and that determination were attempts to support the culprits down the incident. “We wanted to cognize what was the information and that is wherefore we had pressed for a magisterial inquiry. There person been attempts to suppress the truth. We not lone privation justness but we besides privation to cleanse the system,” Kinjal Nanda, different agitating doctor, claimed.

Meanwhile, different radical of doctors, whose suspension by an interior committee for allegedly promoting ‘threat culture’ successful aesculapian colleges and hospitals was stayed by the Calcutta High Court, announced connected Saturday that they had floated the West Bengal Junior Doctors’ Association.

Addressing mediapersons, Srish Chakraborty, a inferior doc of RG Kar aesculapian college, claimed that the protestation movement, which was “aimed astatine addressing the systemic failures that led to the crime, but ‘cease work’ had besides led to chaos successful the state’s healthcare system.”
“We are besides protesting against this rape and execution but we were against cease work. That is wherefore we were alienated and “threat culture” allegations were levelled against us,” Chakraborty alleged.

“Protesting inferior doctors fundamentally wanted to extremity our careers and illegally we were suspended,” claimed Chakraborty. Countering the allegations, Halder said, “The rape and execution astatine RG Kar happened owed to menace civilization of the ruling enactment leaders. Now they are campaigning against us.. It is precise obvious. We volition combat against this and are not budging from our demands. We volition proceed the question to property for our 10 demands,” Halder, subordinate of the WBJDF said.

During this movement, RG Kar Medical College and Hospital authorization suspended 51 inferior and intern doctors, a determination that was aboriginal stayed by the Calcutta High Court.

— WITH PTI