West Bengal News: 3 Vocal Junior Doctors In RG Kar Protest Shifted To Different Colleges Against Choice

Kolkata: Three popular faces of the West Bengal Junior Doctors’ front who were very vocal during the RG Kar junior medics rape and murder protests got transferred to different medical colleges than the one which they have chosen during counselling.

According to the doctors Debashis Haldar, Aniket Mahata and Asfaqullah Naiya when they had visited Swasthya Bhawan to meet Health Secretary Narayan Swarup Nigam, he had allegedly refused to talk to these three senior resident trainees.

Haldar was first given posting in Howrah which suddenly got changed to Gazole in Malda. Naiya was given posting in Hooghly which got changed to Purulia and Mahata was given posting in RG Kar in Kolkata which got changed to Raiganj.

Talking to the media, Mahata said, “We are ready to offer our services in any district of the state. We don’t have any problem even with the transfer. But why were things not discussed before a sudden change? Initially we thought it could be a typological error but now I think it is done purposely as we were very active in RG Kar protests.”

Debashish Halder said, “I am compelled to see and say that this transfer is vindictive”.

Notably, when these three senior resident trainees started protesting outside the office of the Health Secretary, Nigam went out of the building without even talking to them.

However, Nigam said to the media that anyone facing any problem can give in writing to the department.

Chaos again started when few other junior medics wanted to enter Swasthya Bhawan in the evening, police had locked the main gate of the building so that no one could enter.

Incidentally, a worldwide protests erupted after a junior medic was raped and killed on August 9 last year while she was on duty at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata.