Along with her other co-workers, National Award-winning actress Sudipta Chakraborty took to the streets to voice her protest against the heinous rape and murder at Kolkata’s RG Kar Medical College and Hospital. It has been a month since the murder of the junior doctor. The streets of Kolkata are still bustling with protest. 

The hearing of the RG Kar case in the Supreme Court was on September 9. The Court ordered the junior doctors to return to work by September 10. The doctors were seemingly unhappy with the ruling and said that their side of the story was not reached in the courtroom. Sudipta extended her support to the doctors. 

The junior doctors held a press conference where they said that the state government and its legal aides were lying. They denied the allegation of medical negligence by their movement. They validated their claim with statistics.

Sudipta Chakraborty, supporting the protesters, showed statistics, explaining why the movement does not hamper health services. She wrote ‘Did the Supreme Court accept the government’s lie? Who faces problems due to the movement? Those who are saying it, or really the poor people? I started exploring. First, we need to know that no hospitals except the government medical colleges have junior doctors, interns, house staff, and PGTs. There are 3000 hospitals in Bengal. The private hospitals have no junior doctors. There are 1257 health centers, having no junior doctors. They are running as usual. There are 70 general and sub-divisional hospitals, having no junior doctors. There are 60 rail and ESI central hospitals. No junior doctors there. They are running. No junior doctors in the municipality and corporation hospitals either. Each of them is operating as usual. There are only 14-16 hospitals having junior doctors, 0.52% of the total number of hospitals. Strikes are going on there. Senior doctors and professor doctors are there, treating patients and running the OPDs 24X7. The number of junior doctors is 0.5% of the total number of doctors. If the strike of so few doctors can break down the health service, then I have to say something–we have to agree that the state’s health service depends on the junior doctors. Many medical colleges were inaugurated in the districts, but their first batches had not yet graduated. Their infrastructure is horrible. Government hospitals are the breeding ground of corruption. Does the free or fair-priced medicine given by the government pharmacies have the right quality and dose? Can you please explain why the junior doctors’ strike will break down the health service?’ 

Sudipta also shared a video where a patient’s relative claimed that they received the right treatment amidst such a situation. 

The doctors put several demands to the government and said that they would go to Swasthya Bhavan on Tuesday with those demands. If the government agrees to those demands by 5 PM, They would consider joining work. If not, they would think that the government does not want to resolve the problem. They also said that the CM must withdraw her recent comment, tagging the victim’s parents as liars. Efforts of maligning their movement should also be stopped. 

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