A third year resident doctor of Ahmedabad civil hospital attempted suicide, alleging caste discrimination. M.. Mariraj, a native of Tamil Nadu, and currently a resident doctor studying general surgery in Civil Hospital and Medical College, attempted suicide by consuming sleeping tablets following a spat with some staff members in Operation Theatre (OT).
The civil hospital authorities have dismissed his allegations and said he had threatened the administration of extreme step in the past also.
“His all allegations are baseless. In fact, his Head of Department himself is from the SC community so there is no question of any caste discrimination,” Civil Hospital Medical Superintendent Dr M.M. Prabhakar said.
The hospital’s post graduate course director Dr Hansa Goswami also dismissed the allegations and held that “there has been some issue with this particular student.” In the past also, he made allegations and a committee was also formed to look into his issues, she said.
According to sources, the student sometimes got stressed because of language issues as he does not understand both Gujarati and Hindi while majority of people in the hospital use these two languages.
“We have taken his compliant seeking to file atrocity case against two persons Dr Neel Patel and Dr Utkarsh Shah,” a police official from Zone 4 said, adding the victim has stated in his complaint that he was not allowed to perform individual surgery and faced caste-based discrimination from people belonging to the upper castes.
