New Delhi: Amid nationwide protests and strikes against the rape and murder of a 31-year-old doctor at Kolkata’s hospital, the Union Health Ministry today assured them of all possible efforts to ensure the security of healthcare professionals. The ministry has decided to set up a committee to suggest all possible measures for ensuring the safety of healthcare professionals.
The decision came after the representatives of the Federation of Resident Doctors Association (FORDA), Indian Medical Association (IMA), and Resident Doctors’ Associations of Governmental Medical Colleges & Hospitals of Delhi met the officials of the Union Ministry of Health & Family Welfare in Delhi after a trainee doctor was raped and murdered in state-run RG Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata.
Representatives of all stakeholders including the state governments will be invited to share their suggestions with the committee. The Health Ministry also requested the agitating doctors to resume their duties in the larger public interest and in view of the rising cases of dengue and malaria.
