Parents of the 31-year-old RG Kar doctor, raped and murdered at the hospital in Kolkata on Aug 9 last year, finally received her death certificate on Wednesday, report Sumati Yengkhom & Sanjib Chakraborty. Bengal’s principal health secretary Narayan Swaroop Nigam and RG Kar medical superintendent cum vice-principal Saptarshi Chatterjee visited the bereaved parents at their Sodepur home around 6.40 pm and handed over the death certificate to them. “We have also assured them of all kinds of assistance they need, including legal help,” Nigam told reporters.
The confusion over who would issue the death certificate added to the agony of the parents. “We had to run from pillar to post for the death certificate. Though late, we have finally got the original copy. The health secretary also assured us of all kinds of help,” said the father of the victim. Though he said that “whatever they demanded to be detailed in the certificate was there”, he declined to divulge the information. “The personal and human touch was much needed for the grieving parents, especially when there has been so much delay in issuing the death certificate due to legal and jurisdiction issues,” said a senior health official. A few days back, RG Kar administration had written to the state health department about delay in issuing the death certificate.
