Dr Jha came to Bengal to study in a government medical college so that he could get exposure to better experience. However he was exposed to another kind of experience common in government hospitals in Bengal. Attacked by a mob at R G Kar Medical College and Hospital in the week hours of Monday, the doctor is now battling for life at the critical care unit of the hospital. The kicks and blows rained on him by a mob of around 50 persons have left both his kidneys damaged. The first year post-graduate student of surgery has also sustained muscle injuries all over his body.

He even had to be put on dialysis twice in the last 24 hours for renal failure. He was attending the emergency service in the hospital along with other colleagues when four persons injured in road accident were rushed in around 3.30am. He and his colleague doctors attended to the patients. According to colleagues…