The Union Home Ministry has taken a big decision amid the doctors’ protest after the rape and murder of a trainee doctor at the Government RG Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata. According to the new order of the Home Ministry, now all the states will have to give information about their law and order to the Home Ministry every 2 hours.

In view of the increasing crime in the states, the Home Ministry has taken this decision and issued orders to all the states. The message sent to the state police forces states that the law and order situation of all the states should be monitored in view of the protests. In its order, the Home Ministry has asked all the states to send the law and order report to the Center every 2 hours through email, fax or WhatsApp.

Home Ministry order

The message sent on Friday said, “Please send two consecutive hourly law and order situation reports in this regard through fax/email/Whatsapp to Ministry of Home Affairs Control Room (New Delhi) from 4 pm today.”

Let us tell you that doctors and other medical staff are protesting in different parts of the country, affecting health facilities. The protesters are insisting on making a central law to investigate violence against health workers, declaring hospitals as safe zones with mandatory security rights, among other demands.

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IMA’s letter to PM Modi

In fact, the incident of rape and murder of a trainee doctor in Kolkata’s RG Kar Medical College and Hospital on August 9 has created outrage in the whole country. Doctors are continuously protesting. On Saturday, doctors across the country went on a 24-hour strike on the call of IMA in protest against this incident in Kolkata.

After its 24-hour protest, the Indian Medical Association (IMA) has written a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi. IMA said that ‘due to lack of safe places for women, crimes are happening on a large scale. Due to lack of safety protocols, hooliganism takes place. This crime and brutality has shaken the conscience of the whole country. Doctors across the country have provided services only in emergency today.’

IMA made these demands

1. The 2020 amendments to the Epidemic Diseases Act, 1897 (Prohibition of Violence and Damage to Property in Healthcare Personnel and Clinical Establishments Bill-2019) should be included in the draft and made a central act. This will strengthen 25 states.
2. The security protocols of all hospitals should be no less than that of an airport. Hospitals should be declared safe zones with mandatory security rights. CCTVs, deployment of security personnel and protocols should be followed in hospitals.
3. The victim was working 36-hour duty shifts, hence there is a need for extensive changes in the working and living conditions of resident doctors due to lack of safe places to rest as well as rest rooms.
4. A crime must be investigated carefully and professionally within a stipulated time frame, and justice must be delivered.
5. The bereaved family should be given proper and respectable compensation.

The brutality happened in the hospital
Let us tell you that on 8-9 August, a woman doctor was brutally assaulted in the seminar hall of RG Kar Hospital in Kolkata. A 31-year-old post graduate resident doctor posted on duty at the government RG Kar Medical College and Hospital was allegedly sexually assaulted on the night of 8-9 August. She was found unconscious in the seminar hall. She was immediately taken to the doctor, but she died during treatment. There were many injury marks on her body.

Disclosure in postmortem report

The post-mortem report of this case has also come out, which was handed over by the police to the victim’s family. This report talks about the nature of the murder and sexual penetration before it. It was told that the victim was killed by strangulation. She was raped before that. The accused strangled her twice. She died between 3 and 5 in the morning.

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