No more a City of Joy … but a City of Bhoy (fear)." That is how the medical doctors of Bengal portrayed the present scenario in the State's healthcare system even as the doctors' cease work against the rape and murder of a postgraduate trainee colleague entered seventh day on Friday throwing the entire medical service out of gear.

This, even as the students of St Xaviers' and Presidency University joined the stir demanding "Justice" for the departed victim and "Azadi" for women at work place. "Till how long shall we the women be treated like utility commodities … and how long the powers that be shall play the hush-up game … is the woman an outlet for rancor," cried Dr Paradeep of RG Kar Medical College Hospital the epicenter of the present movement where a postgraduate trainee was raped and murdered in the wee hours of Saturday triggering country-wide protests. 

"We are calling our brave friend 'Abhaya' … do you know what she wrote in the final entry of her personal diary probably a night or two before her brutal rape and murder … she wrote 'I want to win a Gold Medal … that is my dream' … look how her dream and that of uncle and aunty lie strewn and shattered in the seminar hall of our Medical College," a classmate of the departed soul said quoting the victim's parents. She "definitely fell victim to the dirty affairs … the dirty rackets that are going inside the hospital … we all are terrorised" a nurse said wondering "if a doctor is not safe what value a nurse has."

"Though an estimated five lakh people or even more might have been sent back in the entire state without treatment hardly a single voice has been raised … as the patient families too are with us … they too realise the urgency of the situation … they too understand that the camel's back has been broken … this far no further … we want justice and will settle for not an inch less," Priankar a pass-out of SSKM Postgraduate Medical College and hospital who had come to express solidarity with his RG Kar juniors.

His views are reinforced by the scene destruction at the RG Kar Medical College which was raided and ransacked by thousands of people in the midnight of August 14 apparently and allegedly to destroy evidence. "But fortunately they could not reach the third floor and returned from the second floor," said Dr Debabrata an Assistant Professor adding "this shows the empathy of the powers that be for the movement and the sympathy they have for the family of the victim."