Kolkata Doctors' March Till Swasthya Bhawan Today To Demand Health Secy's Resignation Over RG Kar Incident

The doctors who have been protesting against the Kolkata doctor's rape and murder will demand resignation from the Health Secretary and Director of Health Education on Tuesday.

Protesting doctors will take out a march till Swasthya Bhawan in Kolkata today. (Representational Image)

Source : PTI

The junior doctors in Kolkata who have been protesting against the rape and murder of a trainee doctor have announced to take out a march till Swasthya Bhawan on Tuesday. The protestors will demand the resignation of the health secretary and Director of Health Education (DHE) over the incident that took place at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital last month.  

"Our demands have not been met and the victim has not received justice," said the protesting doctors adding that they will continue their agitation. 

"We want the Health Secretary and DHE to resign," they said. 

On Monday, West Bengal Junior Doctors' Front issued a press release expressing their displeasure over the Supreme Court hearing over the case. The apex court directed the doctors who are abstaining from work in protest to immediately resume work. 

"We want to ensure that the doctors resume work. Doctors are in the system to render the service to patients. We will provide every kind of security to doctors, but they also have to reciprocate." Chief Justice DY Chandrachud said during the hearing. 

In response to the judgment, the doctors said that the case has been handed around from CBI to the Supreme Court and Kolkata Police "yet justice remains distant." 

Appearing for the state of West Bengal, senior advocate Kapil Sibal filed a status report in the Supreme Court and submitted that 23 people have died when the doctors were not working. 

The doctors' front condemned the submission saying the state government and Sibal played a "disgraceful role" in trying to stop and "malign" the movement by any means. 

The doctor iterated that patient services are operational in every medical college in the state with senior doctors "tirelessly providing care."