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Kolkata: People for Better Treatment walks for justice for medical negligence's victims
Kolkata, Dec 29 (IBNS): People for Better Treatment (PBT), a Kolkata-based organization to fight for a better healthcare system, on Thursday held a rally in the city, seeking justice for the victims of medical negligence.
Starting from city's downtown Esplanade Y-Channel, the protest march ended at Gandhi Statue area near Mayo Road.
Besides the members of PBT, including its president Kunal Saha and secretary Ratna Ghosh, friends and family members of the patients, died due to medical negligence, joined the rally here, demanding actions against the errant doctors and hospitals.
Few of the victims’ families blamed the West Bengal Medical Council (WBMC) for shielding the guilty doctors, responsible for patients' deaths due to negligence.
They also alleged that neither the medical council nor the West Bengal government did anything to improve the healthcare situation in the state.
Following the rally, a memorandum was submitted before Bengal governor Kesharinath Tripathi, urging an independent investigation into the functioning of the WBMC and demanding an appropriate action, assuring a speedy justice to the victims of medical negligence.
Meanwhile, the PBT has arranged an open public seminar on medical negligence and justice, to commemorate the organization's 16th anniversary, in Kolkata's Rotary Sadan on Friday (Dec 30).
(Reporting by Deepayan Sinha)
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