KOLKATA: Junior docs protesting the RG Kar hospital rape-murder rejected on Tuesday the Bengal govt’s invitation to debate their grievances with a chosen workforce on the state secretariat and determined to proceed their strike in defiance of the 5pm deadline Supreme Court had set for them to return to work.
The Mamata Banerjee govt’s message to West Bengal Junior Medical doctors’ Entrance (WBJDF) was despatched out round 6pm, by which period the docs had already shifted the protest from their respective medical school campuses to Swasthya Bhavan, the state well being division’s headquarters in Kolkata’s Salt Lake.
Minister Chandrima Bhattacharya stated the CM waited at Nabanna, the secretariat, till 7.30pm for representatives of the junior docs to show up.
The junior docs stated they felt “humiliated” by the way wherein the invite had been despatched “and its language”. “The mail was despatched to WBJDF by the very particular person (well being secretary) whose resignation we’re demanding,” stated Debasish Haldar, a junior physician at Medical School Hospital. “The message addressed us as ‘Sir’. Let me inform govt that many madams, too, are a part of this cease-work.”
One other level of competition was the variety of representatives govt had invited. “Why solely 10 delegates? Representatives of all medical faculties should be allowed to go,” he stated.
Supreme Court docket had warned the protesting docs Monday that it would not restrain state govt from taking motion in opposition to them in the event that they did not resume work by 5pm the subsequent afternoon after a month-long agitation that attorneys representing the state stated had resulted in 23 sufferers dying for need of sufficient medical consideration.
“The resident docs can’t be oblivious to the wants of the final group,” SC stated.
Bengal CM Mamata, too, appealed to the junior docs to return to work and open a dialogue with govt. Most of their calls for have already been accepted, together with the suspension of some docs, she identified. “Please be part of work. You’re at all times welcome in case you have something to say. Convey a delegation of five-10 members and we will talk about the problems. Give us a while. Be a bit affected person. It won’t be doable for us to fulfil all of your calls for in case you have 10 (calls for). However please present service to the individuals,” Mamata stated.
A whole bunch of protesters marching to the well being division’s workplace in Salt Lake had been stopped by a barricade 100 metres from the gate. They squatted on the street, like they’d finished throughout their march to Lalbazar, the Kolkata Police headquarters .
