Bengal medic murder: Sandip Ghosh appears for 2nd day at CBI office; medics stir continues
Insight Online News
Kolkata, Aug 17 : Ousted RG Kar’s hospital’s principal Sandip Ghosh on Saturday arrived at the CBI office after being summoned in the young lady medic rape and murder case in the hospital on August 9, even as indefinite cease work was resorted to by the junior medics at the OPDs, which continued for the ninth straight day across the government hospitals, official sources said.
Ghosh, who was ousted by an order of the Calcutta High Court after being reappointed by the Mamata Banerjee government to the National Chittaranjan National Medical College and Hospital after he resigned from trouble at RG Kar hospital following pressure from the medics, appeared on Friday for the second time at the CBI office at 10 a.m.
He was grilled by the CBI for 7 hours on Friday at 3 p.m. after being picked up from the street, sources said.
Answering the query of the media while Ghosh was entering the CBI office, he told reporters, “Do not write; I am arrested by the CBI.”
The CBI’s special team from Delhi has so far interrogated 13 medics of the hospital as the federal agency wanted the link in the rape and murder of the 31-year-old 2nd year lady medic and subsequently totally vandalised the hospital’s emergency building’s medical equipment, medicines, valuable evidence, and medical gadgets up to the 2nd floor on the eve of Independence Day.
The parents of the victims believed that there were more people involved in the crime against their only daughter. They said that they were harassed by the RG Kar hospital authorities as they received the first mobile call (1053 am on Friday) with an explanation that their daughter was sick and should come to the hospital. Later on, on their arrival, they were told that the daughter had committed suicide, which kept them waiting nearly 3 hours after they reached around 1230 hours.
“We do not understand why they refused to see their daughter’s body, and swiftly, the body was taken from the hospital,” they said.
Meanwhile, the OPD’s cease-work intensified on Saturday following the Indian Medical Association’s (IMA) nationwide withdrawal of doctors’ services for 24 hours to oppose the death of the trainee doctor.
“All essential services will be maintained. Casualties will be handled. Routine OPDs will not function, and elective surgeries will not be conducted. The withdrawal is across all sectors, wherever modern medicine doctors are providing service. IMA requires the sympathy of the nation with the just cause of its doctors,” read an IMA press release.
Meanwhile, the nursing staff of the RG Kar hospital demanded the resignation of Kolkata Police Commissioner Vinit Goyal, holding him responsible for the vandalism in which some nurses were attacked. They alleged the police personnel were rather hiding themselves in the nursing rooms from the attackers, who were carrying sticks and bamboos and ran rampaging.
Goyal admitted that it was an assessment failure.
Meanwhile, the struggling junior medics set up a legal cell to seek judicial remedy for the justice and security of the professional doctors.
