[Marxistindia] Immediately Enact a Law for the Protection of Medical Personnel

[news from the cpi(m)]

August 19, 2024

Press Release

 

The Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) has issued the
following statement:

 

Immediately Enact a Law for the Protection of Medical Personnel

 

The unprecedented and spontaneous mobilisation of doctors, particularly
junior doctors in angry protests against the barbaric rape and murder of a
young doctor in Bengal's R G Kar hospital reflects not only the solidarity
for the young woman victim but also the experience of doctors against unsafe
and insecure conditions of work. This has received widespread people's
support. It is unfortunate that the Modi government, instead of an urgent
response to the demand for a comprehensive legislation for the protection of
medical personnel, chose a bureaucratic response of assurance to set up a
committee to look into the issue. The law should be enacted without any
delay in consultation with medical fraternity.

 

While the Supreme Court has taken suo moto notice of the R G Kar case, the
issue of appropriate legislation is in the jurisdiction of the central
government. In so far as the Bengal state government is concerned, every day
brings fresh evidence of its efforts to sabotage the processes of justice
and threaten all those who dare to raise questions. The statement of the
father of the victim having no confidence in the Chief Minister and
government, largely echoed by the people, reflects the reality of the cover
up at every stage.

 

The Polit Bureau demands that the central government act urgently to enact
an appropriate law. It condemns the state government for its efforts to
conceal and protect the criminal nexus which made such a barbaric crime
possible. It demands justice for the victim and her family. 

 

 

(Muralidharan)

For CPI(M) Central Committee Office

 

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