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Kolkata Rape & Murder: Delhi Medics To Run Free OPD Services On Road In Front Of Health Ministry Building

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OB Bureau

New Delhi/Kolkata: In a unique protest against Kolkata’s RG Kar Hospital rape and murder, resident doctors of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) and other Delhi hospitals will provide OPD services on the road in front of Nirman Bhawan in Delhi, where the Union Health Ministry office is situated, from Monday (August 19.)

A statement from the Resident Doctors’ Association (RDA) confirmed the same. “As discussed with the Action Committee for Central Protection Act and the general body of RDA AIIMS, it was unanimously decided to continue the strike, as our demands remain unaddressed. This includes halting academic activities, elective OPDs, ward and OT services, ICUs, emergency procedures and emergency OT”, the statement read.

The statement issued by the doctors in Delhi

 

Lost faith in Mamata Banerjee: Victim’s father

At a time when there is a massive outcry across the country, the parents of 31-year-old PGT doctor—the victim—told NDTV that they had lost trust in Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee after seeing the way the police handled the case. Stating that the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) was at least making an effort to ‘unearth the truth’, the victim’s father also said he had handed a page of his daughter’s diary to the central probe agency. However, he remained tight-lipped about the contents.

“Early on I had full faith in her (Mamata Banerjee), but now no. She is asking for justice but what is she saying that for? She can take charge of that, she is doing nothing,” he told NDTV, alleging that ‘people who were demanding justice were being locked up.’ Expressing dissatisfaction with the probe conducted by the Kolkata Police, the victim’s family reportedly refused to accept the compensation offered by the state government.

‘There were bodies, but our daughter was cremated first…what was the haste?’

The father raised doubts as to why there was a haste to cremate the body of their daughter, soon after the autopsy. “There were bodies awaiting their final rites at the crematorium, but our daughter was cremated ahead of them. We were in a state of shock and thus, couldn’t think or act at that time,” the father said, as quoted by the Times of India.

‘Doubt if the seminar hall was the crime scene’

The girl’s body was found in a seminar room of the RG Kar Medical College and Hospital. But, her mother has now raised suspicion as to whether it was the actual scene of crime. She, as reported by the Times of India, claimed that renovation was immediately carried out at an adjacent room to the seminar hall, heightening her doubt if that room (where renovation took place) was the actual crime spot.

‘Parents shared names of colleagues who could be involved in the crime with CBI’

According to reports, the parents have shared names of some interns and physicians from the hospital, who could be ‘involved in the incident’ with the CBI, which has taken over the probe into the matter from Kolkata Police after Calcutta High Court ordered the same. Hinting at the fact that her daughter could have been ‘targeted’, the mother had revealed—according to media reports— that the victim had expressed reluctance about going to the hospital in the days leading up to the attack.

OB Bureau

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