Bengal Doctors’ Association suspends Sandip Ghosh for indefinite period over RG Kar Medical College & Hospital incident

WBOA has also sought an explanation and stand of Ghosh on the incident

August 18, 2024

Bengal doctor’s Association bars Sandip Ghosh for indefinite period

A prominent doctors’ body in West Bengal, where the former principal of state-run RG Kar Medical College & Hospital, Dr Sandip Ghosh is an active member, has kept the latter aside from all sorts of “academic activities under the banner” of the association.

The West Bengal Orthopaedic Association (WBOA) communicated the same to Ghosh through a letter signed by the association president Dr AK Bera and the secretary Dr Rajeev Raman, a copy of which is available with news agency IANS.

This decision follows Ghosh’s name surfacing in connection with the brutal rape and murder of a female doctor at the same hospital on August 9.

The WBOA notified Ghosh of his suspension through a letter, signed by association president Dr. AK Bera and secretary Dr. Rajeev Raman.

“You, being the principal, are supposed to be the local guardian of all students and the PGTs. As the case is handed over to the CBI as directed by the honourable High Court you have been taken for questioning by the CBI officials about this heinous crime that occurred at your hospital. Until you come clean and the final verdict comes from the Court, we are forced to keep you aside from all our academic activities under the banner of WBOA,” read the association letter to Ghosh.

The decision on this count was taken at an extraordinary general body meeting called on August 16, where the agenda was the rape and murder of the woman junior doctor.

The WBOA has also sought an explanation and stand of Ghosh on the incident. “Please respond within 30 days from the receipt of this mail and registered letter from our organization. Hope, you will come clean and truth will be unveiled,” the letter read.

Meanwhile, after two days of marathon grilling on Friday and Saturday for over 13 hours on each day, Ghosh was summoned by CBI to the agency’s Salt Lake office on Sunday morning as well.

On 9 August, a postgraduate trainee doctor was raped and murdered while on duty at RG Kar Medical College in Kolkata, leading to nationwide strikes and protests by the medical fraternity.

On Wednesday, the protest ground and the hospital campus at RG Kar were vandalized by a mob, forcing security personnel to disperse the crowd.

The Indian Medical Association (IMA) had called for a nationwide strike during which routine OPD services and elective surgeries would not be conducted. IMA called for a 24-hour withdrawal of medical services from 6 am on Saturday till Sunday.

Key medical student organizations like The All India Medical Students’ Association (AIMSA) and Federation of Resident Doctors’ Association (FORDA) have joined the nationwide strike.

Protesting doctors at Kolkata’s RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, the site of a horrific rape-murder of a trainee doctor, have leveled serious accusations against both the police and the ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) government.

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