Junior doctors end sit-in protest before Bengal health secretariat
20-Sep-2024 01:51 PM 6463
Kolkata, Sep 20 (Reporter) The West Bengal Junior Doctors Front on Friday ended their sit-in demonstration outside the state health secretariat Swastha Bhavan. They are set to partially withdraw their ceasework by resuming work at the Emergency Departments of state-run hospitals from Saturday. as per their announcement on Thursday night. The WBJDF in a general body meeting on Thursday night decided to resume their duty in the Emergency Departments from Saturday in view of the current flood like situation in South Bengal districts where thousands of people were marooned. The WBJDF, however, announced their movement would continue and they would stay away from their duties at the Out Paients Departments (OPD until justice was delivered to their 31 year old lady colleague, who was allegedly raped and murdered at her workplace R G Kar Medical College and Hospital (RGKMCH) on August 9. The medics also said their demand for removing the state health secretary N S Nigam was not conceded by the government. The protest demonstration at Swastha Bhavan began on September 10 and cease work at the government hospitals from August 9. A protesting doctor Debashish Haldar said they would start a protest rally at 3 pm on Friday from the Swasthya Bhavan to the CGO Complex at Salt Lake, that houses an office of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) - the federal agency probing the alleged rape-murder of the post-graduate trainee doctor and corruption and irregularities at the RGKMCH - to press for a fast inquiry into the case. He said after the rally the medics would return to their respective hospitals and start rssuming their serives at the emergency departments. The medics have also announced the setting up of Abhaya medical camps, in memory of the brutally murdered RG Kar trainee doctor, at flood-affected regions of the state from Friday. "We will wait for a week for the West Bengal government to implement all its promises and if unfulfilled, we will resume 'cease work'," Dr Aspafullah Naiya said. Meanwhile, the college council of Kalyani JNM Hospital has suspended 40 medical students for six months for allegedly creating problem, like issuing threats to fellow students and medics. ...////...
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