Kolkata doctor-rape murder case: Protesting doctors write to President Murmu, PM Modi, seeking their intervention
Sep 13, 2024
Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], September 13 : Kolkata junior doctors have written a four page letter to President Droupadi Murmu, seeking her intervention in the case of the murder and rape of a doctor at R G Kar Medical College and Hospital on August 9 in West Bengal city of Kolkata.
The copies of the letter written by the West Bengal Junior Doctors Front were sent to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar and Union Health Minister JP Nadda.
"We humbly place the issues before your esteemed excellency, as the head of state, so that our unfortunate colleague who has been the victim of the most despicable crime shall receive justice, and so that we, the healthcare professionals under the West Bengal Health Department, may be able to discharge our duties to the public without fear and apprehension," the letter read.
"Your intervention in these trying times will act as a beacon of light to us all, showing us the way ahead out of the darkness that surrounds us," read the letter.
"In this turbid atmosphere of fear, distrust and hopelessness, the junior doctors in West Bengal have been forced to avoid working within the hospital premises and instead have taken alternative modes to discharge our duty of providing health care services to the citizens," the letter read.
Meanwhile, junior doctors on Friday continued their protest amid rain over the incident in front of Swasthya Bhawan in the Salt Lake Area of Kolkata city.
The letter comes a day after West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee urged the protesting doctors to return to work. "I am ready to resign from the Chief Minister of West Bengal. I am not concerned about the post. I want justice for the victim, I am only concerned about ordinary people getting medical service."
The second-year postgraduate medical student was raped and murdered inside the seminar hall of RG Kar Medical College on August 9.
