KOLKATA: The Bengal govt bowed to stress from agitating medical doctors and transferred Wednesday RG Kar medical faculty’s newly appointed principal Suhrita Paul and three different officers underneath scrutiny for the reason that Aug 9 rape-murder of a junior physician on campus.
Paul, who was appointed principal after her predecessor Sandip Ghosh resigned on Aug 13, makes method for the return of Manas Banerjee to an establishment he would have headed from Sept 2023 however for an unprecedented standoff that noticed his room being locked for 3 days earlier than he was transferred once more.
Saptarshi Chatterjee replaces medical superintendent and vice-principal Bulbul Mukherjee within the reshuffle, however appointments to the posts vacated by chest medication head Arunabha Datta Chowdhury and assistant superintendent Dwaipayan Biswas hadn’t been made till late Wednesday.
The transfers capped a day of continued unrest, together with medical doctors marching from CBI’s workplace in Salt Lake to Swasthya Bhavan, the well being division’s headquarters.
Paul, appointed as principal of Barasat Medical Faculty on the outskirts of Kolkata, attended workplace at RG Kar just for a day since taking on from Ghosh. She labored from Swasthya Bhavan over the previous 9 days, visiting RG Kar just for a gathering with CISF officers on hospital safety, sources stated.
Assistant superintendent Biswas has been revealed to be the official who referred to as the rape-murder sufferer’s dad and mom on Aug 9 and informed them their daughter died by suicide.
Mukherjee, dean of scholar affairs when the crime occurred, was elevated to the submit of medical superintendent and vice-principal after the incumbent was shunted out to Calcutta Nationwide Medical Faculty as a professor. Mukherjee’s switch coincided along with his CBI questioning.
The axe fell on respiratory medication head Chowdhury for the reason that sufferer was a trainee physician hooked up to his division. The protesting medical doctors had been demanding that he be made accountable for a criminal offense by which one in all his college students was the sufferer.
Throughout their march, the junior medical doctors handed over a constitution of calls for to principal well being secretary Narayan Swaroop Nigam and director of medical schooling Kaustav Nayek.
Carrying placards, banners and posters, the protesters started the 3km march at 12.30pm. Cops stopped them on the predominant gate to the well being division’s headquarters once they demanded {that a} 35-strong delegation be allowed to fulfill the director of medical schooling.
“We’re scared after the rape-murder of a colleague and the vandalism at our hospital. In these making an attempt occasions, we tried to flag our considerations a number of occasions, however the brand new principal, Suhrita Pal, did not present up. If she has no willingness to even come to the establishment, she higher resign,” stated Pratibha Pradhan, a second-year PG scholar at RG Kar.
Sources stated comparable protests at different medical schools within the state pressured the well being division to behave.
