A young doctor was brutally raped and murdered at her workplace in one of the busiest government hospitals in the heart of north Calcutta. Any workplace should be a safe place for all employees. This evidently was not.

For years, the systemic rot that was allowed to set in resulted in this. The rot was so deep that it gave the liberty to one man or many men — the CBI investigation has shed no light on this so far — to enter the seminar room in the Emergency wing of a bustling government hospital and brutalise the woman with impunity for over 30 minutes.

Who will take responsibility? The now arrested former principal Sandip Ghosh? Of course. But only him? Shouldn’t the head of the government, Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee — who also heads the health and police departments — be held equally responsible? Why couldn’t Mamata who is known to take crises head-on visit the RG Kar premises even once to speak to the agitating junior doctors?

It’s time Mamata Banerjee begins the clean-up of a system that, having been abused for decades by political establishments for their vested interest, is rotten to the core...

Story: Devdan Mitra
Video Producer: Shohini Bose
Video Editor: Abhishek Sharma