CK Birla, Monilek and many other hospitals in Jaipur receive bomb threats

Amid protests by doctors and other healthcare staff against the Kolkata murder-rape case, several hospitals in Jaipur including CK Birla Hospital and Monilek Hospital on Sunday received threats through e-mails.

The police team and bomb disposal squad reached the hospitals immediately after getting the information.

"So far, four hospitals have said that they received such (bomb threat) emails. More hospitals are likely to confirm as and when they check emails," Jaipur Police Commissioner Biju George Joseph told news agency PTI.


The email sent to the hospitals read, "I placed the bomb in the hospital building. The bombs are hidden under hospital beds and inside bathrooms. Every person inside the hospital will be killed or will lose limbs. None of you will escape."

"You will end up in a pool of blood. You all deserve nothing but death. The terrorists 'Ching and Cultist' are behind this MASSACRE," it said.

Protest by doctors in Rajasthan:
Health services in Rajasthan were affected on Saturday due to the Indian Medical Association's call for a one-day strike in protest against the rape and murder of a resident doctor in West Bengal. Doctors boycotted OPD services in almost all government hospitals in Rajasthan though emergency services continued. A representative of IMA Jaipur said that after the call for a national-level strike by the IMA, doctors in all districts of Rajasthan, including Jaipur, boycotted work on Saturday.


This boycott has been done in support of the ongoing movement after the rape and murder of a junior doctor in Kolkata.

However, emergency services were running. He said that during the boycott, OPD patients had to face difficulties but later, all the government doctors in the hospital returned to work.

In the Chittorgarh district, medical services were completely shut. Doctors demanded dismissal of the West Bengal government. The nursing staff working in the district headquarters and surrounding areas also supported this bandh and worked wearing black bands and supported the protest.

Rising bomb threats in country:
Bomb threats to hospitals come after two malls in Gurugram and Noida near Delhi on Saturday were evacuated after they received bomb threat emails. The police later said that nothing suspicious was found following anti-sabotage checks.

The bomb threats to DLF Mall of India in Sector 18 of Noida and Ambience Mall in Gurugram came over three months after similar threats were sent to multiple schools in the National Capital Region (NCR).

(with agency inputs)