‘If Safety Can’t Be Ensured, It Reflects Admin’s Incompetency’: IMA Demands Probe Into Trainee Doctor’s Murder – News18

The Indian Medical Association (IMA) on Saturday issued a statement on the alleged murder and sexual assault of a woman trainee doctor at a government hospital in Kolkata, stating that if safety and security cannot be ensured in ‘citadels of learning,’ it reflects ‘incompetency of the administration.’

“The entire medical fraternity of India is shocked beyond words at the brutal murder of Ms. Moumtia Debnath, a second-year PG student at RG Kar Medical College, Kolkata,” the IMA said in a statement.

The association also demanded a thorough investigation into the “heinous crime” and punishment for the culprits.

“If safety and security cannot be ensured in the citadels of learning it only indicates the incompetency of the administration. The entire medical fraternity of India stands with the bereaved family and her colleagues,” the statement added.

The IMA further noted that this crime reflects the anarchy and insecurity prevailing on campus.

The 31-year-old postgraduate trainee’s semi-nude body was discovered inside the seminar hall of RG Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata on Friday. The victim, a second-year student in the chest medicine department, had been on duty the previous night. Her body showed signs of injury, and the preliminary autopsy report indicated that she had been sexually abused before being killed.

Mass protests have erupted in response to the trainee’s murder. Junior doctors across various hospitals in West Bengal staged sit-ins and processions, demanding exemplary punishment for those involved. Protests were held at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, National Medical College and Hospital, and Medical College, in Kolkata.

Reports also emerged of a scuffle between police and protesting doctors outside RG Kar Medical College and Hospital.