Caste-Based harassment Took life of the Mumbai Doctor

Npnews24 online: Dr. Payal Tadvi, a resident doctor pursuing gynaecology, was found dead in her room on May 22 at BYL, Nair Hospital.

Three senior Doctors booked over for suicide of 23-year-old junior at state run hospital in Mumbai, but have denied allegations that they subjected her to harassment with casteist slur. Three accused in a letter to a resident doctors’ association said, “If heavy workload is given the name of ragging, then we have all been ragged while performing our basic duties.”

The three doctors named- Hema Ahuja, Bhakti Mehar and Ankita Khandilwal – have written to the Maharashtra Association of Resident Doctors, which has cancelled their memberships, to ensure “a fair investigation to give justice”.

It did not say whether the Association has received the letter or from where and how the trio sent it, a day after the hospital’s dean said they are not in Mumbai.