Protesting resident doctors decide to call off strike in West Bengal
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Kolkata doctor rape and murder: Protesting resident doctors decide to call off their agitation, announce that they will join emergency services in from September 21, 2024
Protesting resident doctors in West Bengal on Thursday (September 19, 2024) decided to call off their agitation outside Swasthya Bhawan and announced that they will join emergency services in the State run health facilities from Saturday (September 21, 2024).
Thousands of junior doctors have been on a strike for nearly 41 days since the body of a doctor was found inside the seminar hall of the R.G. Kar Medical College and Hospital on August 9.
The decision by the protesting doctors to join emergency services came hours after the West Bengal government issued a list of directives for ensuring safety, security and efficient functioning of all health care professionals. According to a representative of West Bengal Junior Doctors’ Front, the doctors will on Friday (September 20, 2024) bring out a procession from Swasthya Bhawan, the headquarters of State Health Department to Central Government Officers (CGO) complex where the office of Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) is located.
“We have been raising the demand of safety and security in the State run hospitals because we did not want another incident to occur like the one happened to Abhaya. Our demands are not for a union or organisation. What happened to her was an institutional murder,” Aniket Mahato, one of the representative of West Bengal Junior Doctors’ Front said.
Referring to the ongoing flood situation, Dr. Mahato said that doctors have decided to resume emergency services from Saturday (September 21, 2024). The doctor said that Abhaya Clinic for flood-affected people will be set up.
“We want to remind the government that our fight will go on till the safety and security is completely ensured. The government should not think that the movement has stopped,” the representative of junior doctors said.
The development comes a day after doctors met State Chief Secretary Manoj Pant. In a letter addressed to Principal Secretary of Health and Family Welfare N.S. Nigam, the Chief Secretary highlighted 10 directives for safety and security of healthcare professionals, which include “deployment of adequate number of police/security personnel along with female police/security personnel in every healthcare facility in consultation with Home Department”.
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