RG Kar PG medico rape-murder Case: Junior doctors give 14 August deadline to police to finish probe
Kolkata: In connection with the rape and murder case of a PG respiratory medicine medico at R G Kar Medical College and Hospital, the Junior doctors across West Bengal continued their cease work on Tuesday. They have set a deadline of August 14 for the Kolkata Police to complete its investigation, demanding a magisterial probe into the incident.
The nationwide strikes and protests by junior doctors, and trainees affected medical services as long queues of patients were seen at out-patient departments of all government-run hospitals since early Tuesday morning. And senior doctors were substituting their junior counterparts to address the rush.
According to the PTI report, the agitating junior doctors, who have been pressing for magisterial probe into the killing of the woman doctor, on Tuesday set a deadline of August 14 for the Kolkata Police to complete their investigation.
"The ceasework and protest will continue till our demands are met. We have been very clear about our demands. We want a judicial probe into the incident," a protesting junior doctor at the RG Kar Medical College and Hospital said.
"Why do they need a deadline till Sunday? We are asking the police to complete their investigation by Wednesday," he added, news agency PTI reported.
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, who visited the victim’s family on Monday, has given the Kolkata Police until August 18 to resolve the case. If the deadline is not met, she stated that the matter would be handed over to the CBI.
The body of a woman doctor was found in a seminar hall at the hospital on Friday morning, and a civic volunteer was arrested on Saturday in connection with the crime.
Till Sunday, junior doctors had attended to emergency duties, but from Monday morning, they ceased all work.
The state government has cancelled the leaves of all senior doctors to handle the influx of patients, mostly in the OPDs, adds PTI.
Talking about managing the rush of patients, an official of state-run SSKM Hospital said that since most of the senior doctors were present on Monday, the pressure could be well tackled.
However, some patients, scheduled to get admitted at different hospitals for surgeries, had to return home after they were given an alternate date by the authorities.
Saiful Alam, a resident of Murshidabad district, reached Kolkata on Sunday evening to get admitted at Shambhunath Pandit Hospital early on Monday.
"I had come to Kolkata on Sunday evening and spent the entire night on the hospital premises. But the next morning, I was given another date for admission," Alam claimed, reports PTI.
Similar scenario was witnessed in other hospitals as patients coming to visit doctors at the OPD or getting admitted for scheduled surgeries were sent back home after rescheduling of their appointments.
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