A day after the body of the 31-year-old trainee doctor was discovered on 9th August, former principal Sandip Ghosh ordered renovations and repairs to be carried out at the RG Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata. The letter which was addressed to the Public Works Department (PWD) was written on 10th August. It asked PWD to renovate and reconstruct on-duty doctors’ rooms in various departments of the institution and was undersigned by him.
Sandip Ghosh sent the letter which read, “I would like to inform you that there is a deficiency of on-duty doctors’ rooms and separate attached toilets in various departments of RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, Kolkata. You are hereby requested to do the needful immediately as per the demand of resident doctors of the hospital. The issue has already been discussed and resolved in the meeting with the Principal Secretary, Department of Health & Family Welfare Government of West Bengal and Director of Medical Education, Department of Health & Family Welfare Government of West Bengal today in the board room of the hospital. Please do the needful immediately.”
The subject of the letter highlighted, “Repair/renovation/reconstruction of on-duty doctors’ rooms along with separate attached toilets in all departments of RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, Kolkata on urgent basis,” pointing out the urgency of the matter. The opposition led by the Bharatiya Janata Party charged that attempts were being made destroy the evidence at the crime scene after the remodeling work was discovered.
Notably, the Calcutta High Court had already slammed the state government and questioned the emergency to renovate portions of the emergency building’s third floor, where the crime took place. Additionally, it ordered that the state government reply to accusations that evidence was destroyed during renovations around the third-floor seminar hall of the emergency building’s chest department.
“Is it so important to provide a restroom within 12 hours to meet urgency? You go to any district court complex and see if ladies have any restrooms. I say this with responsibility. What has the PWD done? See the condition of the restrooms in the court complexes,” the high court had questioned to which the government’s lawyer responded, “All these allegations that the place of occurrence (of the crime) has been demolished, destroyed, nothing is correct. The demolition work that happened was not near the place of occurrence.”
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