Agitating junior docs attend 500 patients

Kolkata: Agitating junior doctors at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital on Saturday said they treated around 500 patients through a telemedicine service on the first day of this initiative.

The junior doctors have been on cease-work since August 9 evening, hours after the body of a post-graduate trainee, who was allegedly raped and murdered at RG Kar Hospital. West Bengal Junior Doctors Front on Friday announced that they would provide telemedicine services from Saturday. They named the service ‘Abhaya (fearless) Clinic’.

The service began at 10 am and concluded at around 2 pm, a member of the

Front said.

The prescriptions given at ‘Abhaya Clinic’ have slogans - ‘We Want Justice for RG Kar; Destruction of crime scene’ - written on it in both Bengali and English.

Four new SIM cards were registered for the purpose and the numbers were shared with everyone, one of the junior doctors said.

“After services at the Clinic began, patients started making phone calls and video calls on WhatsApp and informed us of their problems. The doctors prescribed medicines and sent the photo of the prescription to the patient on WhatsApp,” he told a news agency.