NEW DELHI: The junior docs in West Bengal resumed their indefinite and complete ‘stop work’ protest, alleging that the state authorities did not fulfil their calls for. They’ve been demanding that the West Bengal authorities deal with numerous points, together with the necessity for enhanced security and safety in hospitals.
The docs had earlier partially resumed their duties on September 21, following a 42-day protest towards the rape and homicide of an on-duty lady physician at RG Kar Medical Faculty and Hospital on August 9.
“We don’t see any constructive method from the state authorities to meet our calls for for security and safety. At the moment is the 52nd day of the protest and we’re nonetheless being attacked. There isn’t any try and hold the opposite guarantees made throughout the conferences with Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee. Within the given scenario, we’re left with no alternative apart from choosing full ‘stop work’, beginning at present,” stated Aniket Mahato, one of many agitating junior docs.
Moreover, the junior docs referred to as for a march from Faculty Sq. to Esplanade in central Kolkata on Wednesday and invited individuals to affix them.
Additionally they expressed hopelessness on the “tardiness” of the CBI probe into the rape-murder of the RG Kar Hospital medic. The stated that their major demand was to make sure justice for sufferer of the brutal crime, which must be fulfilled promptly with none additional delay or extended authorized proceedings.
“We realised simply how gradual the CBI’s investigation is. Now we have seen many instances earlier than that the CBI has been unable to achieve any conclusions, permitting the true culprits of such incidents to go free attributable to delays in submitting expenses. The Supreme Court docket has as a substitute solely postponed hearings and lowered the precise size of proceedings. We’re disenchanted and angered by this protracted judicial course of,” the docs stated of their assertion.
Amongst their different 9 calls for, the medics urged for the speedy removing of the well being secretary from his place, holding the well being division accountable for administrative incompetence and corruption.
Additionally they referred to as for the institution of a centralized referral system in all hospitals and medical schools throughout the state, together with the implementation of a digital mattress emptiness monitoring system and the formation of job forces to make sure the mandatory preparations for CCTV, on-call rooms, and washrooms.
The medics highlighted the significance of accelerating police safety in hospitals, recruiting everlasting feminine police personnel, and instantly filling all vacant positions for docs, nurses, and healthcare employees.
The junior docs additionally referred to as for a right away inquiry into the rampant corruption and lawlessness inside the West Bengal Medical Council (WBMC) and the West Bengal Well being Recruitment Board (WBHRB).
The ‘complete stop work’ has crippled healthcare providers in any respect state-run medical schools and hospitals on Tuesday and senior docs have been deployed to IPDs, OPDs, and emergency providers to take care of the scenario, in keeping with a well being division official.
In the meantime, the Supreme Court docket expressed dissatisfaction over the gradual progress made by the West Bengal authorities in putting in CCTVs and setting up bogs and separate resting rooms in authorities medical schools.
The apex courtroom, listening to a suo motu case associated to the rape and homicide of a postgraduate medic on the R G Kar Medical Faculty and Hospital in Kolkata, directed the state to finish the continued work by October 15. The bench, comprising Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud and Justices J B Pardiwala and Manoj Misra, stated that no a part of the work carried out by the state authorities was above 50 per cent completion.
