GUWAHATI: Regarding the continued agitation by junior doctors in Assam Medical College Hospital (AMCH) over the murder of a lady junior doctor while she was on night shift duty, Gogoi on Tuesday said that the junior doctors could not be blamed for the agitation in the wake of such a gruesome murder inside the hospital. The junior doctors have been on strike for the fifth consecutive day on Tuesday.
The junior doctors have submitted a range of demands that include ensuring foolproof security in the campus of the AMCH, CBI inquiry into the killing of the junior doctor and exemplary punishment to the guilty, suspension of the Principal, Vice-Principal and Superintendent of the institution.
He also said that the Principal of the AMCH, Dr A K Adhikary was abroad without due permission from the authority. He said the police was soon going to arrest the second accused in the case.
Police already have arrested the prime suspect, a ward boy in connection with the murder.
Gogoi on Tuesday informed that the government was planning to set up a special force to augment security in the state-run hospitals and medical colleges to provide protection to the doctors and other medical staff on duty in view of growing attacks on them.