Junior medical doctors in West Bengal protesting the rape and homicide of a trainee physician at Kolkata’s RG Kar hospital stated on Wednesday night time that talks with senior state officers failed to interrupt the impasse and that it was “essentially the most disappointing assembly up to now”.
After the two-hour assembly, the medical doctors alleged they obtained nothing concrete from the state besides “verbal assurances” because the authorities refused to concern written directives on their calls for to make sure a “thorough clean-up” of the state healthcare system and step up their security and safety inside medical school campuses.
Whereas some 20 representatives from medical schools throughout the state attended the assembly at Swasthya Bhawan, the state was represented by Chief Secretary Manoj Pant, House Secretary Nandi Mukherjee, and DGP Rajeev Kumar, amongst others.
The assembly came about amid an escalation within the ongoing protests after a scuffle broke out between a gaggle of junior medical doctors and police close to a Durga Puja pandal in south Kolkata on Wednesday night time.
Earlier within the day, because the starvation strike by a gaggle of seven junior medical doctors at Esplanade demanding security and safety on the office entered the fifth day, their colleagues initiated a symbolic procession round puja pandals.
Even because the police denied them permission, the junior medical doctors went forward with their deliberate protest at Tridhara Mandap in south Kolkata, resulting in a confrontation with the cops. The medics alleged that a number of of their colleagues had been detained by the police and marched in the direction of Lalbazar, the headquarters of Kolkata Police, however had been stopped.
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