Docs wear black ribbons to protest Kolkata medico’s rape
Tribune News Service
Amritsar, August 12
The resident doctors at Government Medical College (GMC) here protested by wearing black ribbons to express their anguish against the rape and murder of a female resident doctor at RG Kar Medical College in Kolkata.
Later in the evening, the resident doctors along with the students took out a candle march to demand justice for the second year PG student-cum-resident doctor. The doctors stated that sexual assault on an on-duty doctor at her place of work is highly condemnable and the guilty should be punished strictly.
Dr Shivanshi, president, GMC Resident Doctors’ Association, said, “Doctors serve people day and night but they are not safe at their workplace.” She said that ample security measures should be taken at all government and private hospitals to instill a sense of security among medical professionals.
Dr Jaspreet Singh, general secretary, Punjab State Medical and Dental Teachers Association, while expressing solidarity with the protesting resident doctors, stated that PG students are the backbone of medical services at government medical colleges in the country. He said the teaching faculty feels that incidents of violence against medical professionals are on the rise and there is need to bring stricter legislation in force to check such incidents.
Meanwhile, Punjab Civil Medical Services (PCMS) Association too has expressed solidarity and demanded that security at medical colleges and hospitals should be enhanced. The association stated that the Central government should seriously consider the long-pending demand of the medical fraternity for implementation of the Act to prevent violence against healthcare professionals and clinical establishments.
