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The determination was taken aft discussions with elder doctors, the protesting doctors said connected Friday evening. (File Photo)
JUNIOR DOCTORS successful West Bengal, who person been connected an indefinite hunger onslaught since October 5 demanding justness successful the RG Kar rape and execution lawsuit arsenic good upgrade of information infrastructure astatine aesculapian establishments crossed the state, connected Friday issued a “final ultimatum” to the TMC government, demanding a solution to their pending demands by Monday (October 21). They warned of launching a “total strike” connected Tuesday, which volition spot information from some inferior and elder doctors astatine backstage and state-run hospitals, if their demands are not met.
The determination was taken aft discussions with elder doctors, the protesting doctors said connected Friday evening. Debashis Halder, 1 of the protesters, said, “If the Chief Minister does not judge our demands by Monday, we volition person nary enactment and volition beryllium forced to telephone for a implicit onslaught successful the wellness assemblage connected Tuesday,” helium said.
Halder added, “We person acceptable a deadline: Monday. The CM has to judge each our demands. If not, connected Tuesday, each elder and inferior doctors and each [medical] relation volition beryllium forced to spell connected a implicit onslaught successful the wellness assemblage successful nationalist and backstage hospitals.”
Junior doctors person been connected a hunger onslaught successful beforehand of the Metro Channel successful Dharmatala for 13 days now, demanding the fulfillment of their 10-point demands. Three doctors, Sayantani Ghosh Hazra, Snigdha Hazra and Arnav Banerjee, person been connected an “indefinite fast” from the opening of the strike.
On Friday, Sayantani Ghosh held a property conference, questioning Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee astir the government’s “inaction” connected their demands. “The Chief Minister is not reasoning astir america adjacent once,” she alleged, expressing disappointment astatine the “lack of support” from the government.
Even arsenic the wellness conditions of immoderate of the striking doctors person been deteriorating, they person received wide enactment from the public. A ample fig of radical person visited the protestation tract to explicit their solidarity. However, the inferior doctors proceed to hold for a effect from Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee.
On Saturday, the inferior doctors volition instrumentality retired a “justice march” from Sodepur to Dharmatala. They said “significant nationalist participation” is expected.
Rumelika, different doc connected hunger strike, expressed her vexation with the government’s “indifference”. “We should not beryllium sitting present starving similar this,” she said.
It’s worthy noting that the hunger onslaught began connected October 5, with 7 doctors initially participating. Four of them person since been hospitalized owed to deteriorating health, leaving 3 doctors continuing the fast.
In summation to the Dharmatala protest, inferior doctors from North Bengal Medical College and Hospital are besides connected hunger strike. Two doctors from northbound Bengal person been admitted to hospital, adjacent arsenic others person joined the protest.
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