KOLKATA: An audio clip of a senior resident of Burdwan Medical College Birupaksha Biswas threatening an intern has gone viral, raising further questions on the affairs of the state-run hospitals in West Bengal.
In the clip, the senior resident can be heard threatening to cancel registration of the intern if he flags issues concerning some doctors in the hospital. In the purported clip, Dr Biswas can be heard telling the intern that he can ruin his career if he opens his mouth. Dr Biswas told the intern that “everybody knows me very well and nobody has got the audacity to complain against me.”
The clip, which has gone viral on social media, was before rape-and-murder of a 31-year-old trainee doctor at the RG Kar Medical College and Hospital.When contacted, Dr Biswas said, “It is not my audio clip. I have not threatened any student in my college. As I am close to Trinamool Congress, a nexus of doctors is trying to malign my image.”
The intern said that he was surprised to get a call from Dr Biswas as he hadn’t spoken anything against anybody.
Sources in the Indian Medical Association (IMA) said that Dr Biswas is “very powerful and close to Dr Sudipto Roy, an MLA of the ruling party”.
“Dr Biswas takes bribes from medical students and doctors if he helps them in tranfer and posting. He often threatens doctors not to highlight any irregularities. And if they do, then their registration will be cancelled,” sources said.
Dr Biswas was seen in the seminar hall of RG Kar with police officers and others soon after the rape-murder of the trainee doctor on August 9.Meanwhile, the West Bengal government has decided to move to Supreme Court against the bail granted to Sayan Lahiri, one of the three students who organised the ‘Nabanna Abhiyan’ on Tuesday. Lahiri was granted bail on Saturday by a lower court.
The government on Saturday appointed Manoj Panth as chief secretary in place of BP Gopalika.
