NEW DELHI: Junior medical doctors in West Bengal have resumed their indefinite strike demanding higher security and safety at medical services.
The strike, which started on October 1, follows an earlier partial return to work on September 21 after a 42-day protest. The preliminary protest was triggered by the rape and homicide of a lady physician at RG Kar Medical School and Hospital on August 9.
“We don’t see any optimistic method from the state authorities to satisfy our calls for for security and safety. In the present day is the 52nd day (of the protest) and we’re nonetheless being attacked and there’s no try and maintain the opposite guarantees made through the conferences with chief minister Mamata Banerjee. Within the given state of affairs, we’re left with no possibility apart from choosing full stop work, beginning as we speak,” mentioned Aniket Mahato, one of many protesting medical doctors.
He added, “Until we see clear motion from the state authorities on these calls for, this whole stop work will proceed.” The medical doctors name for concrete steps from the federal government to deal with their considerations.
In the meantime, senior medical doctors have additionally deliberate a rally in Kolkata on Tuesday, set to begin round 5 pm, with roughly 60 civil society organisations anticipated to take part.
Manas Gumta, a surgical procedure professor from the Joint Platform of Docs, acknowledged, “The motion will go on in some kind until justice is delivered. The rally on Tuesday will culminate in entrance of Academy of Wonderful Arts, the place cultural programmes, like a avenue play on the heinous crime, will probably be staged.”
One other rally, organised by WBJDF, is scheduled for Wednesday at 1 pm and is more likely to be attended by numerous organisations, together with senior medical doctors and civil society our bodies.
Earlier, Calcutta excessive courtroom on Monday allowed a rally to be held within the metropolis by the Joint Platform of Docs (JPD) on October 1 to protest the rape-murder of a trainee medic at RG Kar hospital.
Disposing of a petition by the JPD, Justice Rajarshi Bharadwaj directed {that a} peaceable rally be held between 5 pm and eight pm from School Sq. in north Kolkata to Rabindra Sadan within the south.
The medics’ platform, an umbrella organisation of the Affiliation of Well being Service Docs, West Bengal, had made a illustration earlier than the Kolkata police commissioner for permission to take out the protest rally from School Sq. to Rabindra Sadan from 5 pm to eight pm with round 50,000 individuals.
