Former R G Kar doctors join protest over rape-murder case
Kolkata: Amid ongoing protests over the brutal rape and murder of a woman postgraduate doctor at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, several former students of the state-run institution joined the demonstration, holding placards and demanding justice.
Alongside their younger counterparts, the veteran doctors staged a sit-in protest holding placards and demanding speedy justice.
According to the PTI report, a veteran lady doctor said, “I belong to the 1964 batch. What has happened in the hospital is just unthinkable and it is the call of the hour to hit the streets to protest.”
Another senior doctor said, “We have come with an infirm physique due to age. We are with the protesting doctors and we need justice”.
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Medical Dialogues team had earlier reported that a day after the Calcutta High Court ordered the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe into the brutal rape-murder of a postgraduate student at R G Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata, doctors and medical students across the country confirmed that they would continue their protests until their demands are met and culprits are identified and punished.
Healthcare services remained affected at state-run hospitals in West Bengal on Monday as junior doctors continued their cease-work protest again the rape and murder of a colleague at the RG Kar Medical College and Hospital.
The body of the woman postgraduate trainee doctor was found inside a seminar hall of the hospital on August 9. A civic volunteer was arrested the next day for his alleged involvement in the crime.
The junior doctors have been demanding that the culprits be punished as quickly as possible, and the post-mortem examination report of the victim be made public, news agency PTI reported.
The Calcutta High Court on August 13 ordered the transfer of the probe into the case from the Kolkata Police to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) which started its investigation on August 14.
