More than 45 senior doctors of RG Kar Medical College and Hospital resigned in protest over the rape and murder of a trainee doctor in August this year.
Over 45 senior doctors and faculty members of RG Kar Medical Centre and Hospital resigned in solidarity with their junior colleagues today, protesting the brutal rape and murder of a trainee doctor within the hospital’s premises last August.
While tendering their resignations, the senior doctors argued that their junior colleagues‘ demands had not been met and that there was “no development” in the probe linked to the rape and murder of the trainee doctor.
It is not healthy for protesting doctors who are on hunger strike. We request the government to reconcile with protesting doctors and those on an indefinite hunger strike,” senior doctors said in their letter to RG Kar Hospital’s administration.
“We senior doctors of RG Kar Medical College and Hospital are giving mass resignations as the government seems to be oblivious to the deteriorating condition of the doctors on hunger strike.
If the situation demands, we will also go for individual resignations,” said the senior doctors in a statement.
Meanwhile, another doctor’s organization, the Joint Platform of Doctors (JPD), also released a statement supporting their junior colleagues.
Doctors Punyabrata Gun and Hiralal Konar, joint convenor of JPD, said in a statement, “Many faculty members /senior doctors in government service expressed their desire to submit mass resignations in view of the ongoing movement ‘Justice for Abhaya’ and against a corruption-threat syndicate, for campus democracy and a patient-friendly system. Junior doctors are on hunger strike and have sat in demonstrations for the last five days for their demands.”
