NEW DELHI: Junior docs in West Bengal have introduced plans to renew a whole ‘stop work‘ in hospitals throughout the state following a scheduled Supreme Court listening to associated to the case of the alleged rape and homicide of a postgraduate trainee physician at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital.
This comes after junior docs and nurses at Sagar Dutta Hospital in North 24 Parganas initiated a ‘stop work’ agitation on Saturday, following an assault on hospital employees by the members of the family of a deceased affected person.The incident, which occurred on Friday, left three junior docs and three nurses injured.
“Following the assault on us by the affected person social gathering, we misplaced all hope within the WB authorities’s assurance of our security and safety,” a junior physician stated of the assault.
The choice to renew agitation comes simply days after the docs had briefly returned to their posts in emergency wards after a 42-day protest.
The junior docs had on Friday declared their intention to carry a significant rally in Kolkata on October 2, demanding justice for his or her colleague, whose tragic demise on August 9 has sparked outrage and widespread demonstrations.
Debasish Halder, a consultant for the junior docs, urged the general public to take part in protest rallies statewide on September 29, the day earlier than the Supreme Court docket listening to.
Junior docs have since insisted on accountability and reform in response to the tragic occasions that unfolded at RG Kar Medical School and Hospital.
The unrest started after the physique of the trainee physician was found on the medical facility, resulting in the arrest of a Kolkata Police civic volunteer. The Calcutta excessive court docket directed the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to probe each the homicide and potential monetary irregularities throughout the establishment
In response to the rising discontent, chief minister Mamata Banerjee met with the protesting junior docs and indicated that a lot of their calls for had been addressed, together with the elimination of Kolkata Police Commissioner Vineet Kumar Goyal and sure officers from the well being division.
