Agitating junior docs in West Bengal have written to President Droupadi Murmu and Prime Minister Narendra Modi, requesting their intervention within the RG Kar hospital deadlock.
Copies of the four-page letter written by the West Bengal Junior Docs’ Entrance had been additionally despatched to Vice President Jagdeep Dhankar and Union Well being Minister JP Nadda.
A post-graduate trainee was raped and murdered in state-run RG Kar Medical Faculty and Hospital on August 9. Junior docs have been on ‘stop work’ since then.
“We humbly place the problems earlier than your esteemed excellency, as the top of state, in order that our unlucky colleague who has been the sufferer of essentially the most despicable crime shall obtain justice, and in order that we, the healthcare professionals below the West Bengal Well being division, might be able to discharge our duties to the general public with out worry and apprehension.
“Your intervention in these making an attempt instances will act as a beacon of sunshine to us all, exhibiting us the way in which forward out of the darkness that surrounds us,” they wrote.
One of many agitating docs, Aniket Mahato, informed PTI that the letter was drafted earlier this month and despatched on Thursday night time.