Kolkata, Sep 9
The Joint Forum of Doctors has objected to Trinamool Congress general secretary and the party Lok Sabha member Abhishek Banerjee's social media post where he blamed their strike for the death of an accident victim.
The forum in a communique on Sunday to Banerjee contested Banerjee by presenting some facts related to the accident.
Banerjee in a post stated that a boy from Konnagar in the Hooghly district of West Bengal faced a road accident and died after bleeding for three hours without receiving medical attention as a consequence of ongoing protest by doctors on the R.G Kar Medical College & Hospital rape and murder case.
As per the communique, the said patient was first “referred to a higher centre from Srirampur and was received at R.G. Kar Medical College promptly at 9.10 a.m. on the same day, September 6.
“The doctors on duty immediately attended to him and continued to provide medical care at several intervals until his unfortunate demise at 12.30 p.m., as noted in the provisional death certificate (PM No. RG2400791300, dated 6.9.2024). The bed head tickets as well as the statement of the MSVP of RGKMCH will categorically substantiate our claim and refute your post,” the communique read.
According to the forum conveners, the social media post by Banerjee is also “potentially dangerous” since it involves the risk of inciting violence and hostility against the medical community.