Kolkata, Sep 8 (IANS) The West Bengal Health Department has issued a notification seeking detailed information about all resident doctors from medical colleges and hospitals in the state.
The information sought by the state health department includes registration number, Aadhaar and PAN numbers, mobile numbers and details of their educational records.
The posts of Resident Medical Officer and Senior Resident are such posts on which the doctors posted are not allowed to do private practice apart from hospital duty.
The state health department is yet to disclose the reason behind seeking the details but it has created a stir in the medical fraternity amid ongoing protests against the horrific rape and murder of a junior doctor on the state-run RG Kar Medical College and Hospital campus last month.
According to representatives of the medical fraternity, the notification is particularly significant as two resident medical officers and a senior resident doctor attached to two government medical colleges and hospitals were recently suspended. All three doctors were close to the controversial former principal of the West Bengal Medical Council, Sandip Ghose.
Ghosh is currently in the custody of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) for his alleged links with the financial irregularities case at RG Kar.
The three suspended doctors include Avik Dey, former Resident Medical Officer (RMO) of the Radiodiagnosis Department of Burdwan Medical College, Dr Birupaksha Biswas, former senior resident doctor attached to the Pathology Department of the same hospital, and Mustafizur Rahman Malik, Resident Medical Officer of Midnapore Medical College and Hospital.
An important hearing on this heinous rape and murder case is to be held in the Supreme Court on Monday.
–IANS
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