Medic’s rape & murder : Leave justice to upreme Court, resume work, IMA chief tells protesting doctors

Amid continued protests by medics following the RG Kar rape-murder incident, Indian Medical Association chief Dr RV Asokan on Wednesday urged all doctors to resume work, leaving the job of delivering justice to the Supreme Court.

He said the rape and murder of the trainee postgraduate woman doctor at RG Kar Hospital had moved the nation’s conscience.

“The anger and frustration of the entire nation is over the fact that she happened to be a budding doctor as well as that she was the only girl child of lower-middle class parents. The entire nation has adopted her as their daughter,” the IMA chief said. Referring to the protests by doctors across the country, Dr Asokan said the medical fraternity was “justifiably on the boil”. Doctors hit the road with anger and deep sorrow, he said adding the IMA had also called for withdrawal of medical services barring emergency care for 24 hours.