Kolkata: One of the seven medics who have started indefinite hunger strike was shifted to the ICU of the RG Kar Hospital after his health condition deteriorated considerably. The medic was was identified as Aniket Mahato. Senior doctor Subarna Goswami told “Aniket Mahato’s condition worsened and his parameters were not good. He was taken to RG Kar hospital and will be admitted to the intensive care unit.” Mahato, along with a few others, has been at the forefront of the agitation seeking justice for the rape and murder victim of RG Kar for the last two months.
Another agitating doctor accompanying Mahato said, “His pulse rate was very low and his other health parameters were also not normal.” A team of four specialist doctors was sent by the state health department to the venue of the hunger strike by junior doctors in the Esplanade area to assess the health condition of the seven doctors who have been on hunger strike for the past five days. “We came here to assess their health situation. It is quite natural that their health parameters wouldn’t be very good after five days of fasting. We are like their parents, and as elders, we have suggested that they should be admitted to a hospital before their condition worsens,” said Diptendra Sarkar, a member of the four-member medical team, speaking to reporters.