West Bengal Governor C V Ananda Bose meets protesting inferior doctors successful Kolkata connected Wednesday arsenic their indefinite hunger onslaught entered its 5th day. Express photo
Junior doctors successful West Bengal protesting the rape and execution of a trainee doc astatine Kolkata’s RG Kar infirmary said connected Wednesday nighttime that talks with elder authorities officials failed to interruption the deadlock and that it was “the astir disappointing gathering truthful far”.
After the two-hour meeting, the doctors alleged they received thing factual from the authorities but “verbal assurances” since the authorities refused to contented written directives connected their demands to guarantee a “thorough clean-up” of the authorities healthcare strategy and measurement up their information and information wrong aesculapian assemblage campuses.
While immoderate 20 representatives from aesculapian colleges crossed the authorities attended the gathering astatine Swasthya Bhawan, the authorities was represented by Chief Secretary Manoj Pant, Home Secretary Nandi Mukherjee, and DGP Rajeev Kumar, among others.
The gathering took spot amid an escalation successful the ongoing protests aft a scuffle broke retired betwixt a radical of inferior doctors and constabulary adjacent a Durga Puja pandal successful southbound Kolkata connected Wednesday night.
Earlier successful the day, arsenic the hunger onslaught by a radical of 7 inferior doctors astatine Esplanade demanding information and information astatine the workplace entered the 5th day, their colleagues initiated a symbolic procession astir puja pandals.
Even arsenic the constabulary denied them permission, the inferior doctors went up with their planned protestation astatine Tridhara Mandap successful southbound Kolkata, starring to a confrontation with the cops. The medics alleged that respective of their colleagues were detained by the constabulary and marched towards Lalbazar, the office of Kolkata Police, but were stopped.
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