While I posed this question in Parliament, well before the grisly rape and murder of a young woman doctor at Calcutta’s RG Kar Medical College, it is shocking that nowhere in its answer does the Government of India take into account the fact that, according to the Indian Medical Association, a staggering 75% of doctors in India are subjected to violence. On the one hand, GoI says that the “newly enacted BNS and BNSS have adequate provisions to protect medical professionals against violence”. On the other, it says “There are no provisions to provide financial/legal support to medical professionals who become victims of violence while performing their duties.” Such callousness is deplorable.
Worse still is the fact that nowhere in this answer does GoI indicate an intention to implement — as medical professionals protesting against the RG Kar rape and murder have been demanding — the Healthcare Service Personnel and Clinical Establishments (Prohibition of Violence and Damage to Property) Bill, 2019. Five years after it first circulated this Bill, GoI remains reluctant to introduce it in Parliament; it was to meet this vital requirement that I introduced a Private Member’s Bill in the Lok Sabha last year, seeking to safeguard our medical professionals from the wanton violence that has tragically begun defining their lives. The law cannot wait any longer!
Unite in this black Rakshabndhan.
Not just the rituals , it’s time to demonstrate true meaning of Rakshabndhan.
This Rakshabndhan every male doctor should take oath to protect their female resident doctor , nurse and all female staff .
-KGMU Lucknow
#rakshabandhan2024 #BENGAL_HORROR #KolkataDoctor
Unite in this black Rakshabndhan.
Not just the rituals , it’s time to demonstrate true meaning of Rakshabndhan.
This Rakshabndhan every male doctor should take oath to protect their female resident doctor , nurse and all female staff .
-KGMU Lucknow
#rakshabandhan2024 #BENGAL_HORROR #KolkataDoctor
#WATCH | Mumbai, Maharashtra: On doctors' nationwide strike against Kolkata's RG Kar Hospital rape-murder case, a relative of a patient at Sion Hospital says, "Our patient is in ICU. The services are proper. We don't have any problem. But I think that what happened in Kolkata is wrong. Those who have done wrong should be punished... Doctors are serving the people selflessly. The government and the people should support them... The services (at the hospital) are running smoothly..."
This is a collective blot on the conscience of the Nation 🙌
Wish we had more directors and head of institutions like you sir 🙌
#RGKarMedicalCollegeHospital
"It will hurt my daughter if I accept money as compensation for her death. I want justice."
- Father of RG Kar Hospital case victim, while denying the sarkari compensation.
A man of integrity and honor. Standing tall despite suffering perhaps the greatest pain of his life.
Mamata Banerjee leads a rally against the rape and murder of a woman doctor, demanding justice for the victim and punishment for the accused.
The ironic part is that she herself is the Chief Minister, Health Minister, and Home Minister of West Bengal. 👏
#WATCH | West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee takes out a rally against the incident of rape and murder of a woman doctor at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, in Kolkata
She is demanding justice for the victim and capital punishment for the accused.
कब तक आस लगाओगी तुम ,
बिके हुए अकबारो से ,
कैसी रक्षा माँग रही हो ,
दुशासन दरबारों से ।
स्वयं जो लज्जा हीन पड़े है
वे क्या लाज बचायेंगे
सुनो द्रौपदी शस्त्र उठाओ ,अब गोविंद ना आयंगे
#Nirbhya2#BENGAL_HORROR#KolkataDoctorDeath
A womans safety is the job of her govt, her administration, her institutions, her faculty, her education systems, her authorities, her courts, her country to enforce and systemically guarantee. It should have nothing to do with her hours, wardrobe or anything else. It’s OUR job.