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RG Kar impasse: Agitating doctors write to President Droupadi Murmu, PM Modi seeking their intervention

One of the agitating doctors, Aniket Mahato, told PTI that the letter was drafted earlier this month and sent on Thursday night

PTI Calcutta Published 13.09.24, 02:55 PM
Junior doctors during their 2nd day of sit-in-dharna over the RG Kar Hospital rape and murder incident, near Swasthya Bhawan in Calcutta on September 11.

Junior doctors during their 2nd day of sit-in-dharna over the RG Kar Hospital rape and murder incident, near Swasthya Bhawan in Calcutta on September 11. PTI picture.

Agitating junior doctors in West Bengal have written to President Droupadi Murmu and Prime Minister Narendra Modi, requesting their intervention in the RG Kar hospital impasse.

Copies of the four-page letter written by the West Bengal Junior Doctors' Front were also sent to Vice President Jagdeep Dhankar and Union Health Minister JP Nadda.

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A post-graduate trainee was raped and murdered in state-run RG Kar Medical College and Hospital on August 9. Junior doctors have been on 'cease work' since then.

"We humbly place the issues before your esteemed excellency, as the head of state, so that our unfortunate colleague who has been the victim of the most despicable crime shall receive justice, and so that we, the healthcare professionals under the West Bengal Health department, may be able to discharge our duties to the public without fear and apprehension.

"Your intervention in these trying times will act as a beacon of light to us all, showing us the way ahead out of the darkness that surrounds us," they wrote.

One of the agitating doctors, Aniket Mahato, told PTI that the letter was drafted earlier this month and sent on Thursday night.

Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by The Telegraph Online staff and has been published from a syndicated feed.

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