Kolkata doctor rape and murder: Third medic on fast rushed to hospital after his condition worsened

Junior doctor fasting for justice hospitalized after health deteriorates, demanding justice and reforms in medical system.

Another junior doctor, who was observing a fast-unto-death in protest over the rape and murder of a woman medic at R.G. Kar Medical College was rushed to a hospital on Saturday evening after his health condition deteriorated, an official said.

Anustup Mukherjee, a junior doctor of Medical College, Kolkata, became the third medic of those who have been on the indefinite fast to be taken to hospital. His condition was stated to be "serious" by his colleagues at the agitation site in the city, a medic said.

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After a team of doctors decided that his condition demanded that he be admitted to hospital for treatment, Dr. Mukherjee was taken to hospital, he said.

He was taken for treatment to Medical College, Kolkata, of which he is a student.

Junior doctors at the agitation site said blood was coming out of his stool and that he was complaining of severe stomach ache.

They requested the government to consider their demands, maintaining that the state administration was "responsible" for the illnesses of the fasting doctors.