Medical students demand apologies, safety measures, and resignations amid protests

Medical students at government-run RG Kar Medical Hospital on Sunday intensified their protest in Kolkata over the alleged rape and murder of a post-graduate medical student inside the hospital and demanded a judicial inquiry. They urged the medical student fraternity nationally to participate in the protest. Meanwhile, West Bengal BJP president Sukanta Majumdar on Sunday, in a letter to Union Health Minister JP Nadda, demanded a CBI probe into the incident.

The doctor, who was sleeping in a seminar room of the hospital, was allegedly raped and murdered early Friday morning. Following the protests, the Medical Superintendent of RG Kar Hospital Sanjay Basisht has been removed and replaced by Bulbul Mukherjee. One of the accused, a civic volunteer, was arrested and remanded to 14-day police custody.

Medical students demanded compensation to the family, judicial inquiry, safety of doctors and the removal of Medical Superintendent, Principal and the head of chest medicine within 12 hours. They demanded that a day to day updated report of the SIT formed by the Kolkata Police be sent to the students' representative. They also sought a written apology from the head of the institution.


"Medical students will not provide services in the emergency department," they said after holding a general body meeting.