Jaipur: The family of the resident doctor at Jodhpur’s SN Medical College, who died Saturday evening at SMS Hospital after attempting to die by suicide in Jodhpur, refused to accept his body on Sunday and demanded an investigation against the deceased doctor’s guide, alleging he was harassed. Resident doctors of Jodhpur’s SN Medical College and Jaipur’s SMS Medical College gathered at SMS hospital’s mortuary where the body of Dr Rakesh Vishnoi, a third-year resident doctor of pharmacology, was kept. They alleged a video circulating on social media should Dr Vishnoi receiving treatment while lying on the hospital bed, purportedly naming a doctor — the head of the pharmacology department at SN Medical College — who was harassing him. “It is extremely unfortunate that Dr Vishnoi died by suicide in Jodhpur due to the pressure of his thesis and the authoritarian attitude of the teachers,” said Dr Manohar Siyol, president of Jaipur Association of Resident Doctors (JARD). He said Dr Vishnoi’s family members, Nagaur MP Hanuman Beniwal, JARD officer bearers and other resident doctors are sitting outside the mortuary to seek justice for him.“The pharmacology head of the department tortured him mentally,” said Ravi Vishnoi, elder brother of Dr Vishnoi.The United Doctors Front (UDF) has formally approached the National Medical Commission (NMC) and the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) seeking an urgent investigation into the death. Dr Lakshya Mittal, national president of UDF, stated that the organisation has raised serious concerns regarding alleged academic harassment and mental torture that may have led to Dr Vishnoi’s death. He said UDF has called for an immediate inquiry into the actions of the thesis guide, college administration, and broader institutional lapses that failed to safeguard the mental well-being of resident doctors.“Dr Vishnoi’s death is not an isolated incident—it is symptomatic of a systemic crisis in medical academia,” said Dr Mittal.
Harassment by guide led to doc’s suicide in Jodhpur, alleges family | Jaipur News
