Former principal of R G Kar Medical College Sandip Ghosh was summoned again by the CBI, investigating the rape and murder of a trainee doctor, for questioning on Monday, for the fourth day in a row.
Ghosh arrived at CBI’s CGO complex in Salt Lake with a set of documents for questioning. He was first called for questioning on Friday and then summoned again on Saturday where he was grilled for 13 hours. He was asked to return for questioning on Sunday by the investigating officials.
He, however, denied reports that the CBI had arrested him. “I was not made to sit face-to-face with Sanjay Roy (the main accused who has been arrested in the case),” Ghosh told reporters, adding not to spread rumours about him.
Doctors’s stir
Junior doctors in states, including West Bengal and Delhi, continued their protest on Monday. “Our indefinite cease-work and sit-in will continue till our demands are met,” said Dr. Aniket Mahata, a spokesperson for protesting junior doctors at the R.G. Kar Medical College and Hospital told Reuters.
As a mark of protest, the doctors have also decided to provide elective outpatient services outside Nirman Bhawan, the Union Health Ministry’s office. on Monday. The resident doctors will be available to provide elective OPD services in around 36 specialities, including medicine, surgery, obstetrics & gynaecology, paediatrics, ophthalmology, and orthopaedics, to patients outside Nirman Bhawan on Monday, according to a statement by the AIIMS RDA.
The doctors will proceed to Nirman Bhawan at 11 am, the statement added. However, emergency services will continue as before at the hospitals.
According to the doctors, a concrete response from the government regarding bringing the Central Protection Act for medics would have offered some relief. “However, after seven days, we are still waiting. As stated earlier, the strike will continue indefinitely until our demands are met,” a resident doctor from the Safdarjung Hospital said.
