TMC Leader on Protesting Doctors: Trinamool Congress leader Kunal Ghosh has given a controversial statement regarding the junior doctors who are protesting against the rape and murder of their colleague at Kolkata’s RG Kar Medical College and Hospital. After which there has been panic among doctors across the state.
Actually, Kunal Ghosh had asked his party workers to prepare a list of junior doctors posted in every district. Ghosh had said that many junior doctors attached to state-run medical colleges in the districts were not attending their scheduled duty period. He comes for duty for a few hours and then comes to Kolkata for private practice. Prepare a list of these doctors, so that it can be sent to the state government for appropriate administrative action against them as per law.
“Ghosh’s statement a ploy to divert public attention”
The Trinamool leader had also claimed that a list of such junior doctors, who are doing private practice along with their job, will be sent to the state government, so that disciplinary action can be taken against them as per the existing legal provisions. West Bengal Junior Doctors Front (WBJDF), a junior doctors’ body that has led the movement on the issue of rape and murder, termed Ghosh’s comments as a ploy to divert public attention from the protest movements.
“Biometric attendance marking system should be installed in hospitals”
A representative of WBJDF said, we have been emphasizing on the development of infrastructure in government medical colleges and hospitals in Kolkata for some time. One such demand is that biometric attendance marking system should be immediately implemented in all government medical colleges and hospitals. This will help you know who is reporting for duty regularly and who is not. Then the administration should take action against the culprits.
“An attempt is being made to instigate the public against us”
Another protesting junior doctor said that in the current situation such comments by Ghosh are an attempt to instigate the public against the protesters and are in fact another form of the “intimidation-culture” that has been prevalent in the state medical colleges and hospitals for a long time. Is prevalent from.
He said, such efforts to divert attention from our ongoing movement in support of our just demands will never succeed. According to Manas Gumta, former general secretary of the Association of Health Service Doctors, Ghosh, despite not being a part of the administration, is making unnecessary comments on a purely administrative matter. If they think we will get scared then they are wrong.
