The newly shaped West Bengal Junior Physician Affiliation (WBJDA), comprising suspended medical doctors of R G Kar hospital amongst others, has written a letter to state Chief Secretary Manoj Pant with an eight-point constitution of calls for that features “no motion with no probe” and probe into funds collected by its rival group, West Bengal Junior Docs’ Entrance (WBJDF).
On Saturday, the group of medical doctors, whose suspension by an inside committee was stayed by the Calcutta Excessive Court docket final week, introduced the formation of a brand new affiliation, rivalling the West Bengal Junior Docs’ Entrance (WBJDF) which is main the protests over the rape and homicide of a junior physician on the state-run Kolkata hospital.
In a letter to the chief secretary, the WBJDA wrote, “The alleged monetary irregularities of WBJDF, together with fundraising within the identify of Abhaya which has come into the general public area must be addressed instantly. We demand a correct audit of that massive assortment of funds and a correct investigation of the sources and motive of such alleged monetary irregularities by a reliable authority of the federal government.”
On the suspension of medical college students and junior medical doctors, the letter acknowledged, “Nobody in any medical faculty must be punished based on baseless views or suggestions of 1 aspect, which has been happening in current days… to meet political and private agendas of some personnel. If such incidents are reported once more sooner or later, then all govt officers together with the principal and MSVP of that medical faculty or institute concerned in such biased, vindictive decision-making processes should undertake investigations accordingly…”
Addressing mediapersons on Monday, Srish Chakraborty, a junior physician at RG Kar Medical Faculty, claimed that the junior medical doctors’ protest, aimed toward “addressing the systemic failures that led to the crime”, had led to “chaos” within the state’s healthcare system resulting from their stop work.
“We’re additionally protesting in opposition to the rape and homicide however we have been in opposition to the stop work. That’s the reason we have been alienated and allegations of menace tradition have been levelled in opposition to us. Protesting junior medical doctors wished to finish our careers and we have been illegally suspended,” Chakraborty alleged.
Moreover looking for capital punishment for the “culprits” for the rape and homicide of the R G Kar sufferer after “correct investigation”, and safety for healthcare professionals, the Affiliation wrote that the “healthcare system must be enough to present correct services to the sufferers in all domains of the system from medical faculties to major well being centres.”
The letter additionally acknowledged: “The WBJDA strongly calls for our participation in all faculty and state-level official committees, together with job forces, RKS, and others in an equal ratio as that of the WBJDF to have transparency in each continuing.”
The WBJDA additionally calls for a room to register our organisation formally as Room No. 32 of the KB Hostel of R G Kar Medical Faculty has been allotted to WBJDF for a similar function,” it stated, including that if the WBJDA doesn’t get such a room, the WBJDF’s room allocation must be cancelled.
On recruitment of officers, together with medical doctors, nursing workers and different officers, the Affiliation demanded that not solely seniority but additionally benefit and data of aspirants must be thought-about,” it added.
