Kolkata: Hundreds of agitating professional medics, both junior doctors and their seniors, on Wednesday marched towards West Bengal health secretariat at the New Town from the CBI office here as their cease-work entered the 3th day over the demands for safety and justice for their colleague murdered in a Kolkata hospital.
The protesters were shouting slogans: “We want justice” and “No safety, No duty” during the march sponsored by the newly-formed West Bengal Junior Doctors’ Forum.
Doctors and students from 31 medical institutions joined the march. Hundreds of private senior surgeons also joined the agitation for the first time since the statewide protests rocked the state after a 31-year old lady medic was allegedly raped and murdered on August 9 at the RG Kar Medical College and Hospital.
A representative of the protesters said, “We started our protest march from the CGO Complex where the office of the CBI, which is yet to crack the case, to the state health secretariat in search of RG Kar Medical College and Hospital’s newly-appointed Principal Suhrita Pal, who is not coming to the hospital.”
The medics said they would submit a memorandum once they meet the newly-appointed principal.
Pal has allegedly avoided facing the protesting doctors and opted to function from the health secretariat at New Town.
Meanwhile, BJP legislators and party leaders on Wednesday began a sit-in at Shyambazar five-point after the Calcutta High Court allowed them to protest from noon to 9 pm for five days to demand justice for the murdered doctor.
The BJP’s demonstration point is half-a-kilometer east of the RG Kar Hospital.
The BJP protest began on a day when a team of Central Industrial Security Force, led by DIG Kumar Pratap Singh, inspected the RG Kar Hospital after the Supreme Court order the deployment of the force to boost security at the hospital.
