New Delhi: Doctors from the nation’s best medical institute, AIIMS-Delhi, will stage a demonstration in the national capital on Saturday afternoon to demand justice for the rape and murder victim of RG Kar Medical College and Hospital in West Bengal.
Dr Suvrankar Datta, vice president of the Federation of All India Medical Associations (FAIMA) and a senior resident doctor at AIIMS-New Delhi, told the media they planned to protest peacefully.
“We are organising a large peaceful protest at Jantar Mantar on August 31 to seek justice for our colleague at RG Kar Medical College in West Bengal,” Dr Suvrankar Datta was quoted as saying by media reports.
In response to recurrent physical and sexual assaults on medical professionals, particularly women, while on duty, the country’s medical fraternity is urging that the Union government enact a statewide protection Act for healthcare professionals to prevent such abuse.
Dr Suvrankar Datta said, “We call on the Central Government to implement a nationwide protection Act for healthcare professionals to prevent violence.”
The doctors are planning to gather at Jantar Mantar for the protest and have appealed to others in the medical community to join them in drawing the government’s attention to their plight and seeking justice for the RG Kar victim.
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Dr Suvrankar Datta said, “Ahead of the Supreme Court hearing on September 5, I urge doctors to join us at Jantar Mantar from 3 P.M. to 5 P.M. on Saturday. We want to demonstrate our unity and demand increased security in hospitals across the country.”
In the weeks after the heinous rape and murder in Kolkata, there were nationwide strikes and protests by doctors across the country, and medical facilities were hit.
The striking doctors went back to work following an intervention by the Supreme Court of India on August 22 wherein the apex court asked them to join their duties while also assuring them that it would prevail upon authorities not to take adverse action against the striking doctors, who had been protesting over the Kolkata doctor’s rape and murder case.
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(IANS/Wasim Sarvar)
