5 days after withdrawing their starvation strike, the protesting junior medical doctors in West Bengal on Saturday organised a mass conference to strategise their subsequent transfer to hunt justice for the R G Kar rape-murder sufferer and make sure that the state authorities fulfils all their calls for.
The six-hour-long mass conference held at RG Kar Medical School and Hospital’s ‘Platinum Jubilee constructing’ was attended by medical doctors from varied state-run medical institutions, aside from representatives of civil society.
The West Bengal Junior Docs Entrance (WBJDF) introduced that their protest motion would proceed and determined to organise a rally to the CBI’s workplace right here on October 30 demanding justice for the RG Kar sufferer.
The members, together with Debashish Halder, Kinjal Nanda, Rumelika Kumar, Aniket Mahato, additionally mentioned the “risk tradition” allegedly prevalent in a number of state-run hospitals, apart from steps to be taken to exert stress on the state authorities to make it fulfil their calls for. “We now have referred to as this mass conference to hunt justice for our sister, who was raped and murdered at RG Kar Hospital on August 9,” mentioned Mahato.
“The protest began by a couple of medical doctors has now taken an enormous form. We wished to know what occurred on the seminar corridor of the hospital (the place the physique was discovered). We had no concept that this motion would proceed for therefore lengthy and we’d get the assist of so many individuals,” Halder mentioned on the programme.
“The state authorities is highlighting that our well being system is primary within the nation. You may see after Cyclone Dana… how our well being system is working. For emergency instances, the final ward is working regardless of main waterlogging. That is the face of our well being system,” mentioned Rumelika Kumar.
On October 21, the agitating junior medical doctors referred to as off their quick, which began on October 5, following a gathering with Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee who assured them that their calls for could be thought-about.
On Saturday, the junior medical doctors additionally alleged that there have been makes an attempt to suppress the reality about what led to the rape and homicide of the junior physician on the RG Kar Hospital and that there have been makes an attempt to guard the culprits behind the incident. “We wished to know what was the reality and that’s the reason we had pressed for a magisterial inquiry. There have been makes an attempt to suppress the reality. We not solely need justice however we additionally wish to cleanse the system,” Kinjal Nanda, one other agitating physician, claimed.
In the meantime, one other group of medical doctors, whose suspension by an inner committee for allegedly selling ‘risk tradition’ in medical schools and hospitals was stayed by the Calcutta Excessive Court docket, introduced on Saturday that they’d floated the West Bengal Junior Docs’ Affiliation.
Addressing mediapersons, Srish Chakraborty, a junior physician of RG Kar medical school, claimed that the protest motion, which was “geared toward addressing the systemic failures that led to the crime, however ‘stop work’ had additionally led to chaos within the state’s healthcare system.”
“We’re additionally protesting towards this rape and homicide however we have been towards stop work. That’s the reason we have been alienated and “risk tradition” allegations have been levelled towards us,” Chakraborty alleged.
“Protesting junior medical doctors principally wished to finish our careers and illegally we have been suspended,” claimed Chakraborty. Countering the allegations, Halder mentioned, “The rape and homicide at RG Kar occurred on account of risk tradition of the ruling social gathering leaders. Now they’re campaigning towards us.. It is vitally apparent. We are going to combat towards this and are usually not budging from our calls for. We are going to proceed the motion to press for our ten calls for,” Halder, member of the WBJDF mentioned.
Throughout this motion, RG Kar Medical School and Hospital authority suspended 51 junior and intern medical doctors, a call that was later stayed by the Calcutta Excessive Court docket.
— WITH PTI
