Junior doctors at RG Kar Medical College protested at College Square, demanding justice for the recent alleged rape and murder case. The demonstration called for increased security on campuses to ensure student safety.
The agitating doctors had ended fast-unto-death on October 21 after CM Mamata Banerjee assured the fulfilment of their demands. However, the doctors held a convention of Saturday and announced a march to CBI's Kolkata office on Ocyober 30.
The junior doctors are on the fast-unto-death demanding justice for the rape and murder victim doctor of the RG Kar Hospital, along with other demands regarding medics' safety. CM Mamata has assured to meet the remaining demands in the coming 3-4 months.
The hunger strike will be spearheaded by the IMA Junior Doctors' Network and Media Student Network in solidarity with protesting West Bengal junior doctors. The IMA has also urged the West Bengal govt to accept their demands.
FAIMA's decision comes amid the fast-unto-death by the West Bengal junior doctors, which entered the 10th day on Monday. The medics are demanding justice for the female doctors raped and killed in RG Kar Hospital in Kolkata.
The Kalyani JNM Hospital doctors wrote an email to the Registrar of West Bengal Health University and expressed solidarity with the junior medics of the RG Kar Hospital, who are on fast unto death for the last 9 days regarding their demands for justice of rape and murder victim.
The junior doctors launched a cease-work protest at a state-run medical college and hospital near Kolkata after allegedly being beaten by the family of a patient who died during treatment.
The first round of meetings was held on Monday between the protesting junior doctors and Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee. After the meeting, Kolkata CP and two health department officials were removed.
A delegation of 35 junior doctors arrived at Banerjee's Kalighat residence at 6:20 p.m. for the crucial talks, which began around 6:50 pm. The meeting ended around 9 pm.
In order to break the deadlock between the government and protesting doctors, CM Mamata Banerjee extended a meeting invite to RG Kar doctors. However, the doctors put forward some conditions before accepting the invitation.
Despite the Chief Minister's attempts to de-escalate the situation, the junior doctors remained firm on their demand for an official videographer, stalling discussions. The standoff continues, prolonging the strike, which has impacted medical services across the state.
From the evening of August 9, after the body of a woman medic was found inside RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, the junior doctors have started a cease work at all state government hospitals across West Bengal crippling healthcare services.
The Supreme Court, while hearing the Kolkata rape-murder case, had asked the West Bengal government not to use force to suppress the peaceful protesters.
Nabanna Abhijan rally HIGHLIGHTS: Hundreds of students on Tuesday took to the streets and protested against the Kolkata rape and murder of the doctor at a hospital in the city. The West Bengal Police lathicharged them to hold them back and stop them from marching to the secretariat.
The Supreme Court took the suo motu cognizance of the Kolkata doctor rape and murder case on Tuesday and said that the issue of doctors is the "national priority" and urged the medics to resume their work.
Earlier, the doctors from RML had said they will boycott all routine services at the hospital. The move comes in light of the repeated delays in NEET PG Counselling 2021.
A two-hour symbolic protest will be held by doctors from various government hospitals in Delhi, including Maulana Azad Medical College, Safdarjung Hospital and RML Hospital today.
While Banerjee termed the over one-and-a-half-hour long meeting as "positive and productive" and urged the doctors' to immediately end the strike for the sake of the ailing patients, the young doctors said they were eager to get back to work, calling the deliberations a "move towards the positive direction".
Shekhar Salkar, the former chief of Indian Medical Association (IMA), Goa, who took part in the protest march, said, "Doctors were striking work in the coastal state to express solidarity with their colleagues who were recently attacked in West Bengal."
The junior doctors will meet Mamata Banerjee to try and reach an agreement with the authorities and end the ongoing agitation.
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