The junior medical doctors of Bengal referred to as off their large protest over the rape-murder of a colleague at a Kolkata hospital and mentioned they are going to be part of work from Saturday. However there was a caveat – they mentioned they won’t be part of OPD companies or attend elected operations. These can be resumed as soon as they’re assured of the state authorities’s dedication to the security challenge, they mentioned. The announcement got here after the state had accepted most of their calls for — and amid large floods in south Bengal the place well being companies have change into a precedence.
Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has been on a tour of the flood-hit areas since yesterday. It was the Chief Secretary who attended the final assembly with the medical doctors on Wednesday and accepted their calls for and recommendations relating to safety.
Earlier in the present day, he wrote to the Principal Secretary, giving detailed directions which included guaranteeing enough availability of on-duty rooms, washrooms, CCTVs, deployment of police and safety personnel which would come with ladies, cellular police groups for surveillance at evening, central helpline and panic buttons and alarms.
The official has additionally ordered an audit of safety in any respect state-run medical establishments.
The medical doctors made it clear that this partial return to work is just not by any means an finish to their agitation. “If wanted, we are going to start ceasework once more,” mentioned a consultant of the junior medical doctors. The authorized battle may also proceed, as would their demand for a fast decision of the rape-murder of a 31-year-old physician that’s on the coronary heart of the protest.
The top of this section of protest can be marked by a march from the protest website to the CGO Complicated, the place the workplace of the Central Bureau of Investigation is situated.
The decision of the 41-day deadlock with the state authorities was set in movement on Monday, with the medical doctors sitting face-to-face with the Chief Minister after three failed makes an attempt.
Ms Banerjee had instantly introduced the elimination of Kolkata police chief Vineet Goyal and two high officers of the well being division. The medical doctors, although, are nonetheless pushing for the elimination of the well being secretary.
“I do know they are saying they are going to go and focus on after which will resolve on lifting the ceasework. However I’ve requested them to take action, citing the situation of sufferers, particularly in view of the floods in a few of the districts,” the Chief Minister had mentioned after the assembly.
The medical doctors had declared that assembly a “partial success” and mentioned the federal government was capitulating in face of the protests that was buttressed by hundreds of the residents of town.
