Doctors, mostly women, from diverse state-government hospitals’ attended a meeting with the Bengal Governor CV Ananda Bose regarding the violence at the RG Kar Hospital.
Kolkata:
Bengal Governor CV Ananda Bose said Thursday Positive action, which will be exemplary for others, will be taken against those who vandalized the RG Kar Medical College in Kolkata late last night.
Sections of the facility were vandalized—by an unspecified group of protesters—when demonstrating against the rape and murder of a junior doctor on the hospital’s compound a week ago. This afternoon, Mr. Bose met doctors from sundry state-run institutions eager to discuss the violence with him.
The doctors, who were predominantly women, informed him that they were ‘‘insecure’’ after the killing and violence.
They also informed the governor that they had been rendered ‘traumatized and terrorized,’ and to this, Mr. Bose assured the women of his help.
Watched by the Governor, a group of around 20 doctors confronted him with their concerns: “We are with you,” said the Governor. “We will fight it out and not allow these ghastly things. We will take action that will be positive and will be exemplary to others.”
The delegation also informed the governor that the intention of the mob was to burn the belonging that would give an account of the killing of a 31-year-old doctor whose lifeless body was found at about 0500 hours on August 10.
She had been sexually assaulted before her death because her genitals were cut beyond recognition, her hands and legs were at one point chopped in the middle, and glass fragments were pulled from one of her eyes.
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The killing led to massive protests by doctors in Bengal and across the country, and it gave rise to a’reclaim the night’ movement from yesterday at . 11.55 p.m. Women constituting most of the protesters, thousands of them in number, took to the streets in places like Kolkata and Delhi while expressing concern over their safety.
