Kolkata. The West Bengal Health Department has issued a notification seeking details of all resident doctors from the state’s medical colleges and hospitals. The information sought by the department includes registration number, Aadhaar and PAN number, mobile number and details of their academic records. The posts of Resident Medical Officer and Senior Resident are such posts on which doctors posted are not allowed to do private practice apart from hospital duty.
The state health department has not disclosed the reason behind seeking the information, but it has created a stir amid ongoing protests against the rape and murder of a trainee doctor on the government RG Kar hospital campus last month. According to information, this notification is particularly important because recently two resident medical officers and a senior resident doctor attached to two government medical colleges and hospitals were suspended. These three doctors were said to be close to the controversial former principal of the West Bengal Medical Council, Sandip Ghosh. Ghosh is in CBI custody for his alleged links with the case of financial irregularities in RG Kar.
The three doctors suspended include Avik Dey, former resident medical officer of the radio diagnosis department of Burdwan Medical College, Dr. Birupaksha Biswas, former senior resident doctor of the pathology department of the same hospital and Mustafizur Rahman Malik, resident medical officer of Midnapore Medical College and Hospital. This heinous rape and murder case is to be heard in the Supreme Court on Monday.