A huge number of doctors and other healthcare workers staged sit-ins and human chains and closed down several roads in the capital of West Bengal.
Kolkata:
Barely a week after the brutal rape and murder of a 31-year-old postgraduate trainee doctor in the RG Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata, doctors in the city came out on the roads in a mass show of strength and formed a human chain today.
As many as 10,000 healthcare workers held a protest procession and chained themselves across several roads in West Bengal’s capital.
During the protests, one could single out an interesting event. Doctors protested, and police officers who were guarding the protest collected themselves. The doctors placed rakhis on the wrists of the police personnel, while the later gave toffees to the doctors.
Many of whom are now experienced doctors, former students of RG Kar Medical College also supported the young protesters. Of whom protesters had graduated as early as the 1960s, bearing placards and calling for quick justice.
This was evidenced by doctors and ‘cops gifting each other rakhis and toffees during the protests.
Kolkata:
Many doctors across Kolkata came out on a protest today to form a human chain to condemn the rape and murder of a 31-year-old postgraduate trainee doctor of the state-run RG Kar Medical College and Hospital on August 9. Several thousand of them have formed human chains and are demonstrating on several roads in the West Bengal capital.
Amid the protests, the highlight was a special act. Many doctors were out on protest, and the police, who were on duty to manage the protest, also joined the doctors in their strike. While the medical practitioners fastened rakhis on the wrists of the policemen, the police in turn gave toffees to the doctors.
