RG Kar Medical College and Hospital principal Suhrita Paul (C) being gheraoed by nursing staff agitating over their safety and security after miscreants ransacked the emergency ward of the hospital, in Kolkata on Thursday. Photo: PTI
The emergency ward, nursing station, medicine store and parts of the outpatient department of the hospital were vandalised by miscreants on Thursday amid midnight protests by women across West Bengal, condemning the alleged rape and murder of a doctor in the hospital’s seminar hall on August 9.
Several persons, including some policemen, were injured in the violence.
Meanwhile, the cease work by junior doctors at government healthcare facilities, protesting the rape-murder of the postgraduate trainee, continued on Friday.
The agitating doctors have been demanding exemplary punishment for the culprits and enhanced security at workplace.
Opposition parties in the State have accused the police of not taking adequate action when the vandalism and violence took place at the state-run RG Kar Medical College and Hospital.
Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee had said on Thursday evening that two floors of its emergency ward have been destroyed, medicines looted and infrastructure and equipment severely damaged.