more-inThe depiction of a figure with a stethoscope and a doctor’s coat receiving money at the Mohammad Ali Park Durga Puja pandal has created outrage in the city’s medical fraternity. The organisers tried to clarify with a placard that the reference was to fake doctors, but the controversy refuses to die down. WBDF vice-president Binayak Chanda said “the placard was not there before we strongly objected to such a derogatory portrayal of doctors as demons. So we are considering the latest step of the puja committee as our moral victory.”He said the WBDF had not yet ruled out the possibility of taking legal action. The puja organisers said they only wanted to portray the “menace of fake doctors” and never intended to give offence.

Source: The Hindu September 23, 2017 17:26 UTC