A photo of a doctor’s prescription went viral on social media. (PTI/X)
Dr Debbrata Roy called it his “silent protest” and claimed other doctors are also using similar stamps on their prescription slips to demand justice for the RG Kar victim
A doctor in West Bengal’s Raiganj is demanding justice for the RG Kar MCH rape and murder victim using his prescription slips. Dr Debbrata Roy’s prescription slips have a red circular stamp that reads ‘RG Kar: We want to destroy the crime cycle’. In the middle of the stamp, it is written ‘We Want Justice’. A photo of a doctor’s prescription went viral on social media.
Notably, Dr Roy is a former student of the RG Kar Medical College and Hospital.
Dr Roy called it his “silent protest” and claimed other doctors are also using similar stamps on their prescription slips to demand justice for the RG Kar victim. “This is my silent protest,” the doctor told Anandabazar Online.
“Over 20 days have passed (since the incident) and justice is yet to be served. Attacks on doctors have become common. All these things are affecting the health sector, therefore I am using this stamp in my prescriptions. My patients too are also encouraging this,” Dr Roy told News18.
He said he would keep using the stamp in his prescription slips until the Kolkata doctor gets justice.
Meanwhile, amid protests against the RG Kar incident in many parts of the country, President Droupadi Murmu on Wednesday said she was “dismayed and horrified” to learn about the crime. “No civilised society can allow daughters and sisters to be subjected to such atrocities,” the President said, adding, “Enough is enough”.
“Even as students, doctors and citizens were protesting in Kolkata, criminals remained on the prowl elsewhere,” President Murmu said.
“The society needs an honest and unbiased self-introspection, and ask itself some difficult questions. Very often a deplorable mindset sees the female as a lesser human being, less powerful, less capable, less intelligent. Those who share such views then go further and see the female as an object. We owe it to our daughters to remove the hurdles from their path of winning freedom from fear,” she added.
