Rally demands resignation of RIMS Director
Source: Hueiyen News Service / NNN
Imphal, January 20 2014 :
Director of Regional Institute of Medical Science (RMS) S Sekharjit is now under intense pressure over the recent alleged medical accidents in which three young mothers died while delivering babies at the hospital.
On Monday, a protest rally was taken out in Imphal city against Prof Sekharjit and his staff blaming them for the deaths which occurred last year.
They tried to storm the Regional Institute of Medical Sciences.
About 200 people, both men and women, took part in the protest rally which started from near Ibotonsana Higher Secondary School, Uripok.
The protesters were, however, stopped by police on their way before they could reach the main gate of the hospital.
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Earlier, the three joint action committees (JACs), fighting for justice in the deaths of Aheibam Bijeta of Lamshang bazaar, Irengbam Sandhayarani of Lamboikhongnangkhong, and Devjanai of Tera Loukram Leirak, formed a joint body naming 'coordination committee of the JACs on unnatural deaths of three mothers' .
It has demanded that the incompetent staff of RIMS should be punished and Prof Sekharjit be resigned on moral grounds.
The coordination committee in a statement said the police investigation as well as the enquiry by RIMS authority into the deaths has been totally neglected.
It said that the committee is set to take up further agitation over the deaths.