Kolkata, Oct 19 (Reporter) West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Saturday invited the junior doctors to meet her at Nabanna on Monday after the protesting medics served a 72-hour ultimatum to government either concede their 10-point demands or else they would be forced to call a day general health strike in both government and private hospitals on Tuesday. Banerjee, called the medics on phone through state chief secretary Manoj Pant when the latter accompanied by state home secretary Nandini Chakraborty visited the fasting site Esplanade. She invited the Junior Doctors them to meet her at 5 PM on Monday and appealed to them to call off the fast and protest and resume duty. The medics later told reporters that they would call her on Monday but they would continue the fast and protest until their 10-point demands were agreed. Dr Bipresh Chakraborty said the Chief Minister may not have full information about the demands of the medics and it was very unfortunate since she is also the state health minister. Banerjee said she needed 3/4 months time to consider the demands while she was speaking to medics on phone at the fasting site of the Junior doctors , which entered the 15th day today. The CM urged the medics to withdraw their fast-unto-death and resume work. Banerjee said “I have removed CP, DME, DHS but cannot remove everyone…need 3/4 months to consider other demands, including elections. Please withdraw from the hunger strike.” “You know why I did not remove the health secretary… I said it is not possible to remove everybody in a department,” she said, referring to the doctors’ demand to remove state Health Secretary Narayan Swaroop Nigam. “You should rise above politics and rejoin work. People are now asking for justice. You now do justice to them…You are changing your decisions every day. You should serve people. I leave it to your consideration,” Mamata said. The medics said that they wanted to hold direct talks with her and said that she was misinformed about their movement. The doctors had given the state government time till Monday to meet their demands, failing which they had threatened to go on a statewide strike on next Tuesday. The junior doctors have placed the 10 demands before the government like justice for the victim, removal of state Health secretary, a centralised referral system, digital bed vacancy monitors in all hospitals, task forces in every medical colleges with elected representatives of junior doctors, deployment of police in hospitals, filling up of vacancies in hospitals, holding election of student councils, college-level enquiry committees to probe into allegations of threat culture and probe into the alleged corruption in the state medical council. Amassive rally from Sodhpur, the place of the bereaved parents of the victim, in North 24 Parganas, to Dharmatala was organised and it is longest so far in the history of the state. Besides fans of East Bengal and Mohun Bagan also organised another massive rally to the Salt Lake stadium demanding justice for the 31-year-old lady second year post graduate trainee doctor who was raped and murdered at her working place in RG Kar Medical College and Hospital in North Kolkata...////...