New Delhi, August 12: There is a resentment among doctors across the country over the murder of a female trainee doctor in Kolkata. Resident doctors are on strike in many government hospitals across the country.
Meanwhile, the Federation of Resident Doctors Association (FORDA) has written a letter to the Union Home Minister demanding security for doctors. Association President Dr. Aviral Mathur said that doctors across the country are united in the matter of RG Kar Medical College.
FORDA India President Dr Aviral Mathur said in a conversation with the media that FORDA has made five demands in the letter written to the Home Minister. This includes providing facilities to resident doctors, taking resignation of responsible officials of RG Kar Medical College, stopping police brutality with doctors, providing quick justice to the deceased, forming a security protocol and expert committee for health workers. Mathur said that resident doctors are on strike in many hospitals. We have increased the number of doctors in emergency services. The protesting doctors demand that the Central Protection Act be implemented. This matter should be investigated in a transparent manner and the investigation of the case should be handed over to the CBI.
General Secretary Dr Sarvesh Pandey said that FORDA met the Health Secretary. The Principal of RG Kar Medical College should be removed immediately, there should be a CBI inquiry. We will continue our strike until we get a written assurance. During the strike, elective surgery will be hampered and only emergency services will work. It
is noteworthy that the incident of brutality with a junior doctor in RG Kar Medical College-Hospital happened on the intervening night of Thursday-Friday. The deceased was a postgraduate second year student and trainee doctor of the Department of Chest Medicine in the medical college. She was missing since 12 o’clock in the night after completing her duty on Thursday. On Friday morning, there was a stir in the medical college when the body of the doctor was found in a semi-nude state from the seminar hall on the fourth floor.
