RG Kar Row: WB Medical Council Suspends 2 Doctors, Serves Show-Cause to Former Principal Sandip Ghosh
Doctors Suspended
Kolkata: After the action taken by the West Bengal Health Department, now the West Bengal Medical Council (WBMC) has also suspended two government doctors, who are known to be close confidants of the controversial former principal of RG Kar Medical College and Hospital.
Apart from suspending Dr. Avik Dey and Birupakshya Biswas, the State Medical Council has also served a show-cause notice to Ghosh, who was recently arrested by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), for his alleged involvement in financial irregularities at the state-run hospital when he in charge of its affairs.
Dr. Ghosh has been asked to reply satisfactorily or else his registration would be cancelled by the State Medical Council, UNI has reported.
The state Medical Council has suspended Avik Dey and Birupakhya Biswas following pressure from all fronts, including that of the striking junior medics, for their alleged nexus in the crime. Dey held an important post in the council and Biswas was a member of the penal and ethics committee.
While Dr. Dey is a Resident Medical Officer (RMO) in the Radiodiagnosis department of Burdwan Medical College, Dr. Biswas is a senior resident attached to the pathology department of the same hospital who was transferred on last Wednesday.
Medical Dialogues had earlier reported that recently the State Health Department also suspended these two doctors after several allegations were raised against them for allegedly being involved in irregularities, misconduct, and being part of the North Bengal Lobby across medical colleges.
The brutal rape and murder of the postgraduate trainee doctor at RG Kar Medical College occurred on August 9th and the probe was handed over to the CBI only a few days later. However, until now there has only been one arrest in relation to the death.
Meanwhile, while considering the suo motu petition in respect to the incident, the Supreme Court today highlighted that the challan for sending the body of the deceased to postmortem was missing from record.
The Apex Court bench comprising CJI DY Chandrachud and Justices JB Pardiwala and Manoj Mishra also asked the protesting resident doctors in Kolkata to go back to work after taking note of the submissions by the West Bengal Government claiming that 23 deaths occurred due to the absence of these doctors from their workplace.
However, the bench has asked the State to ensure safety of the resident doctors including arranging different duty rooms, toilets for them and installing CCTV cameras. Further, the Apex Court bench has also asked the State not to take any punitive action against the protesting doctors if they resume work by tomorrow evening.
