Kolkata rape-murder incident: Doctors at AIIMS Delhi hold protest march
Aug 17, 2024
New Delhi [India], August 17 : Following the announcement of a nationwide strike over the RG Kar Medical College rape and murder incident by the Indian Medical Association (IMA), doctors at All India Institutes of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in Delhi staged a protest march inside the campus on Saturday.
The doctors were seen holding posters and raising slogans of "We want justice".
IMA Secretary General Dr Anil Kumar J Nayak said they are hopeful that the government will bring the law they are demanding.
"Our junior and resident doctors carried out a maha rally yesterday. 4000-5000 doctors joined it... Everyone is agitated and they are demanding safety. They are demanding CPA, Central Protection Act... We met Union Minister JP Nadda and we will keep meeting other authorities. They are positive but there is nothing concrete from them yet... We are hopeful that they will bring the law that we are demanding," he said.
Meanwhile, junior doctors and students of SMS Medical College and Hospital in Jaipur protested against the rape-murder incident at Kolkata's RG Kar Medical College and Hospital.
Amid nationwide protests condemning the rape and murder of a trainee doctor, RG Kar Medical College former Principal Sandip Ghosh arrived at the Central Bureau of Investigation's office in Kolkata on Saturday.
"Those who are saying that I'm arrested by CBI kindly don't spread fake rumours. I didn't have face-to-face interrogation with the accused Sanjoy Roy," Ghosh said after arriving at the CBI office.
A team of CBI including the Joint Director and Additional Director also arrived at the CBI Special Crime Branch at CGO complex in Kolkata.
Meanwhile, doctors are continuing their protests across the country against the rape and murder of a second-year trainee doctor at RG Kar Medical College.
The Indian Medical Association (IMA) has declared a 24-hour withdrawal of services by all the modern medicine doctors of the country irrespective of the sector and place of work in response to nationwide outrage over the rape and murder of a second-year trainee doctor at RG Kar Medical College.
While emergencies and casualties will function, the IMA saidthat no OPDs or elective surgeries. will be performed from 6 am on Saturday till 6 am on Sunday, August 18, 2024.
On August 9, a postgraduate trainee doctor was raped and murdered on duty at RG Kar Medical College in Kolkata, which led to nationwide strikes and protests by the medical fraternity.
The incident triggered massive protests. On Wednesday, the protest ground and the hospital campus at RG Kar were vandalised by a mob, forcing the security personnel to disperse the crowd.
