BJ Medical College Doctor Suicide Attempt: 8 senior doctors, 2 administrators likely to be arrested

AHMEDABAD: In a recent case of suicide attempt where a BJ Medical College resident doctor ate a bunch of sleeping pills on allegedly being discriminated on the basis of his caste, the police has lodged an FIR against eight doctors and two college administrators. The FIR was filed after the said resident doctor filed a complaint with the local police, naming his colleagues and seniors.

Medical Dialogues team had earlier reported that Dr M Mariraj, who hails from Tamil Nadu, is a third-year student of the Master of Surgery (MS) course at the government-run B J Medical College here. He took a bunch of sleeping tablets after having a verbal spat with seniors/colleagues in the operation theatre. Some reports said he was upset because he was not allowed to conduct surgeries by his teachers who discriminated against him as he is a Dalit.

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According to the resident doctor's complaint with the police, he was victimized because he belonged a scheduled caste and some of his colleagues had humiliated repeatedly on various occasions, which even made him change his unit.

"Mariraj states that things did not change even after he changed his unit, and he faced the same discrimination from some doctors at Civil Hospital. He alleged that he was not allowed to do the things he was entitled to and that the others did not let him perform surgery," said a senior police told TOI