IMA suspends membership of former RG Kar Hospital principal Sandip Ghosh

New Delhi: The Indian Medical Association on Wednesday suspended the membership of Sandip Ghosh, the former principal of RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, who was in charge when a 31-year old lady doctor was brutally raped and murdered inside the Kolkata hospital.

India’s largest association of doctors with 400,000 members took such a step after a IMA disciplinary committee formed by its national president R V Asokan, considered the “rape and murder of a post-graduate resident and subsequent developments at the hospital.”

“The disciplinary committee of the IMA headquarters has unanimously decided to suspend you forthwith from the membership of the Indian Medical Association,” the IMA says in a suspension order to Ghosh, who is the vice president of IMA Calcutta branch. He will lose the post within the association.

IMA said Secretary General Anilkumar Nayak and Asokan visited the victim’s parents at their home. “They had put up their grievances against you (Ghosh) in dealing with the situation as well as lack of empathy and sensitivity in handling the issue in appropriate manner befitting the responsibility held by you in your dealings with them,” it noted.

The association said IMA West Bengal branch and certain other associations of doctors demanded action against Ghosh, citing the nature of disrepute that he brought to the profession.

Ghosh is currently being investigated by the CBI for his role after the rape-murder incident as well as for corruption charges against him.