It was certainly a black day for the medical fraternity when a lady doctor, pursuing PG Respiratory Medicine, was found dead under mysterious circumstances in the seminar hall of the city-based R G Kar Medical College and Hospital.
Dr.Moumita Debnath’s body was found in half-naked condition with several injury marks, raising suspicions of brutal rape and murder.
The inquest report prepared by the police recorded bleeding from both the eyes and her mouth, injury on the face and nails, bleeding from her genitals, and several other injury marks in different parts of the body.
Reportedly, the doctor was on duty and after completing her 36-hour shift, she went to study in the seminar hall, from where her body was recovered in the morning by the hospital staff.
Following the brutal incident, doctors in Bengal have taken to the streets protesting against the horrific incident demanding justice for the deceased Dr.Moumita Debnath. Doctors from acpross the nation have extended their solidarity and given a call for a nationwide agitation and demanded the intervention of the Prime Minister.
This horrific incident of suspected rape and murder of a lady doctor, a pulmonologist in the making, questions the safety condition of the female doctors working in hospitals across the State and the country.
