Mumbai gynaecologist suicide case: Resident doctors' body suspends 3 accused

Sumitra Debroy / TNN / Updated: May 27, 2019, 21:02 IST

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Mumbai gynaecologist suicide case: Resident doctors' body suspends 3 accused

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MUMBAI: The Maharashtra Association of Resident Doctors (MARD) on Monday suspended three junior doctors of BYL Nair Hospital in Mumbai. The three doctors are accused of abetting the suicide of a junior gynaecologist Dr Payal Tadvi.
The association has also demanded the suspension of the unit head, who allegedly failed to take any action against the seniors despite receiving written and verbal complaints from the victim.Dr Tadvi had committed suicide on May 22.
Agripada police on May 23 had booked Hema Ahuja, Bhakti Mehar and Ankita Khandilwal for abetting the suicide of the doctor, ragging and under the Atrocities Act after Payal Tardvi (26), a second year MD student at Nair Hosoital committed suicide on May 22.
Hours after performing two surgeries, a 26-year-old doctor, pursuing second year MD in gynaecology at BYL Nair Hospital, hanged herself at the college hostel on Wednesday.
The relatives of the deceased complained that the doctors had a Whatsapp group where the three doctors would humiliate Payal using "casteist slurs".
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Sumitra Debroy

Sumitra Deb Roy is a health journalist with more than 17 years of experience across India’s leading newspapers. She is currently a senior assistant editor with the Times of India, where she has extensively covered the Covid-19 pandemic and highlighted the unprecedented challenges faced by the health systems in Mumbai and Maharashtra. She recently co-authored a book titled “Mumbai Fights Back” that chronicles the city’s battle with Covid-19. She holds a postgraduate degree in journalism from the Asian College of Journalism in Chennai and a bachelor’s in political science from Calcutta University.

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