Kolkata:
Bengal Chief Minster Mamata Banerjee, after assembly with the protesting junior medical doctors, has introduced that she had agreed to 3 of the 5 calls for of the protesting medical doctors — the removing of two high officers of the well being division and the Chief of Kolkata police. Together with it, the police chief of town’s north zone — the place RG Kar Medical Faculty, the hospital the place the rape-murder of a younger physician passed off, is situated — can even be eliminated. Although the deadlock is solved, the protest and the ceasework is predicted to proceed until the formal orders are issued within the morning.
“I feel the assembly was optimistic. Am positive they assume too,” she stated. “Or why else we’ll signal the minutes of the assembly and they’d signal it too?” she added.
Banerjee stated they’ve accepted 99 per cent of the medical doctors’ calls for, “as a result of they’re our youthful brothers”.
“I do know they are saying they’ll go and focus on after which will determine on lifting the ceasework. However I’ve requested them to take action, citing the situation of sufferers, particularly in view of the floods in among the districts,” the Chief Minister stated.
Docs say protest will proceed until…
The announcement is seen as a capitulation of types. The environment on the protest website after the medical doctors returned was festive. The junior medical doctors declared that the state’s acceptance of their calls for was a “huge victory” of their 38-day protest.
As for lifting the protest and the casework, that may solely be achieved when the federal government delivers, they stated. “Now we have solely acquired their verbal assurance,” stated a consultant of the Junior Docs’ Discussion board.
Besides, their different intention — the destruction of the nexus of corruption on the hospital – stays, they stated. “We can even proceed the agitation for the removing of the well being secretary,” added one of many different representatives.
What the State has promised
Mamata Banerjee has accepted the calls for for the improve in hospital infrastructure and Rs 100 crore has been earmarked for it.
In regards to the removing of the 2 well being officers — the Director of Medical Schooling and the Director of the Well being Providers — Ms Banerjee stated they’d be given transfers to correct posts.
“We’re not dishonouring them. They haven’t been within the submit for lengthy and have achieved nothing mistaken. However for the reason that college students stated they don’t have belief in them, we’ve accepted,” Ms Banerjee stated.
The Chief Minister had earlier stated that metropolis police chief Vineet Goyal can be retained for a minimum of the Durga puja. He had requested to resign a number of occasions, however she wished him to remain again, she had stated.
The demand for Mr Goyal’s removing got here in view of allegations concerning the police function in proof tampering after the rape-murder of August 9. This was commented on a number of occasions by the Supreme Court docket and the Calcutta Excessive Court docket.
Final week, the Central Bureau of Investigation or the CBI, which is investigating the case, has arrested the hospital’s former Principal Sandip Ghosh and a senior officer of the native police.
The “fifth and last invitation for talks”
The Chief Minister’s announcement passed off near midnight, after a two-hour assembly with the protesting medical doctors and one other 2.5 hours to kind out the minutes of the assembly. Forward of the assembly the state authorities had described it as a “fifth and last invitation for talks”.
The protesting junior medical doctors had come to the desk after two failed makes an attempt at talks with the Chief Minister. Escorted by a pilot police car, round 30 medical doctors had arrived at Ms Banerjee’s dwelling at 6.20 pm. The assembly, which was anticipated to start at 5 pm, lastly began round 7 pm and ended round 9 pm, after which the method to finalise the minutes began.
The medical doctors had taken their very own stenographers to report the minutes. The doc was signed by 40 medical doctors.
The deadlock over the medical doctors’ demand for justice for the rape-murder of the 31-year-old medic has been on for greater than a month. The Supreme Court docket has already ordered that the medical doctors put an finish to the ceasework and get again to affected person care, which is struggling.
The order had ended the unfold of the ceasework, as medical doctors throughout India had stood as much as present solidarity with the protesters. However Bengal medical doctors had refused, doubling down with the protests because the widespread folks stored up their assist.
The rape-murder That shocked the nation
The 31-year=previous physician was raped and murdered on the Kolkata hospital on August 9. Her partially clothed physique was discovered on the hospital’s seminar room the following morning.
The prime suspect, who has been arrested, is Sanjoy Roy, a civic volunteer with the Kolkata Police, who was stationed on the police outpost on the hospital and had entry to all departments.
However the investigation had left too many questions unanswered — together with the assorted distorted variations informed to the dad and mom one in every of which was the declare that their daughter has died by suicide.
There have been additionally allegations that the police had compelled the cremation regardless of the dad and mom’ unwillingness and one officer had even provided them cash to bury the case.
There was the development close to the location of the crime, mob assault on the protesters at RG Kar hospital on the evening of August 15 and the switch of Sandip Ghosh to a high hospital hours after he submitted his resignation.
The courts questioned why the previous principal had not file a criticism for a well timed First Data Report, the lapses in postmortem report and the related papers. The case was handed to the CBI, which first arrested Ghosh in reference to the parallel corruption case they’re investigating after which for alleged proof tampering.
The sequence of occasions led to spiralling protests that unfold throughout the nation, already outraged over the stunning crime.
