WB govt, docs must find solution

The West Bengal Junior Doctors’ Front held a long protest march Saturday October 19 ,2024

to press on with their demand for justice for the victim of rape and murder at the R.G. Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata. Their hunger strike has been on for over a fortnight despite the health of some of the participants being threatened by their fasting.

The issue of seeking justice for the victim may be justified, but the issue has lingered. It is time both parties, the West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee and the doctors, came off their high horses and started working sincerely towards finding a solution for the issue of safety of doctors.

A concrete plan for ensuring the safety of young medicos working long hours must be worked out and the Supreme Court itself has ordered this. A prerequisite for working out the details would be a normal atmosphere to prevail in the hospitals and among the medical practitioners who can then sit with the administration while a draft plan is drawn up for doctors’ safety.

Harping on a detail like the sacking of the West Bengal health secretary should be a very small thorn in the long road to safety, not only in that state but in hospitals and clinics around the country. Practising medical professionals may come under pressure from sexual predators as well as kin of patients who become violent in the unfortunate event of deaths of patients which may have had nothing to do with the quality of medical care being given.

The chief minister of West Bengal and her administration may have been wrong in trying to cover up the horrific incident that took place on the night of August 9 to rob the life of a young intern. But since the ordering of a CBI inquiry on top court intervention, the fixing of guilt may have been completed.

There may have been too much bad faith in the talks thus far. The time to move on and find ways to prevent the recurrence of acts against medical professionals has come and that can happen only if the doctors as well as the politicians stop this battle of egos and work together on solutions.

Not only the career of young doctors and medicos is imperilled by such delays in acting on serious issues but also the health of people who need medical care in hospitals.


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  • Kumar Bahukhandi

    Kumar has written mostly short stories and on human behavior that changed the day to day course of the people who engineered them. He says I am always myself... I just hate being someone else...It's so fake and unreal..."!!I have an everyday religion that works for me. Love yourself first, and everything else falls into line...... I am just a next door person A friend of friends, A Journalist ,who respects every person regardless of his/her stature (but yes, disregards cunning and selfish people).Learnt to get in touch with the silence within myself and knew that everything in life has a purpose. A very simple, Introvert person who believe in "Simple Living and High Thinking", trusts in Modesty. Very truthful to self basic instincts, work, hobbies and family. I Always Listen and Obey what my heart, my inner voice, my soul tells me. I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others.

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