Backing junior doctors’ hunger strike, senior doctors of RG Kar hospital resign en masse

In the aftermath of the August 9 rape and execution of a trainee pistillate doc astatine RG Kar hospital, inferior doctors successful the authorities went connected a full “cease work”. They called disconnected their onslaught connected October 4 and launched an indefinite hunger onslaught connected Saturday.

The resignation letter, signed by implicit 34 elder doctors, read: “We, the undersigned doctors of RG Kar Medical College & Hospital, person been striving to supply optimal infirmary services. However, the existent conditions person made it progressively challenging to present the prime of diligent attraction that is essential. The wellness of the protesting doctors who are presently connected hunger strike, is deteriorating tremendously fast. We petition the authorities to travel into reconciliation with the protesting doctors and the ones who are sitting successful an indefinite hunger onslaught immediately. We elder doctors of RG Kar Medical College & Hospital are giving wide resignation.”

On Monday, a radical of senior doctors besides joined the hunger onslaught successful solidarity with their juniors, who are demanding information and information astatine the workplace, justness for the deceased colleague, contiguous removal of Health Secretary Narayan Swaroop Nigam, and enactment against alleged corruption successful the section among others.

“The unwavering enactment of our seniors since time 1 is genuinely commendable. By resigning en masse, they person sent a almighty message,” said Kinjal Nanda, a protesting inferior doctor.

“We couldn’t person travel this acold without the enactment of our elder doctors,” said Abid Hassan, different inferior doc astatine Esplanade wherever his colleagues are connected hunger strike.

“Even during our cease work, the seniors pitched successful with other hours of work and kept the infirmary services mean arsenic acold arsenic possible. We are not against patients, but we are warring for a origin and privation to cleanable the system. This wide resignation is decidedly a invited step,” helium added.

Another inferior doc expressed anguish implicit what helium claimed was the government’s “indifference” towards their demands.
“Even aft 68 hours of our hunger strike, the authorities is not taking immoderate steps. Therefore, the elder doctors of RG Kar person resigned. Doctors from different hospitals volition besides commencement sending wide resignation letters. This volition hopefully further make unit connected the government,” said Sayan Mandal, different protesting inferior doctor.

Meanwhile, elder doctors of the Calcutta National Medical College besides warned of wide resignation if the demands of the protesting medics were not met.

On Monday, the authorities urged the protesting inferior doctors to extremity their hunger onslaught and resume duty, assuring to implicit the installation of CCTV cameras successful each the aesculapian colleges successful the authorities successful the adjacent 3 days.

Chief Secretary Manoj Pant said the authorities authorities was afloat committed to providing a harmless workplace and urged the protesting medics to spot the government’s actions successful a “positive light”. The main caput besides said that a panic fastener oregon an alarm strategy volition beryllium installed successful state-run aesculapian institutions, arsenic demanded by the protesting inferior doctors, by November 1, and announced to motorboat a aviator task of a “referral system” connected October 15.

“We person nary differences and we are doing these successful a affirmative manner. We are requesting inferior doctors to spot each these things (actions taken by the government) successful a affirmative airy and extremity the hunger strike. We are requesting inferior doctors to articulation work. I indispensable accidental that galore of them person already resumed duty. The remainder of them should besides instrumentality to enactment arsenic soon arsenic possible,” Pant had said astatine a property league connected Monday.

On Tuesday evening, doctors from assorted aesculapian colleges and hospitals, some state-run and private, joined 2 rallies to enactment their inferior colleagues. One rally began astatine Calcutta National Medical College and Hospital, portion the different started from the SSKM Hospital.