In the latest update of the ongoing protest in Calcutta, the junior doctors of the RG Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata, protesting against the rape-murder of a trainee doctor, will resume essential services in the hospital from September 21.
Notably, the protesting doctors announced that they will partially resume their cease work and partially rejoin their duties at emergency and essential services in state-run hospitals from Saturday as the West Bengal government has accepted most of their demands.
The medics, who have been on cease work for the last 41 days following the rape and murder of a woman doctor at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, announced that they would lift their sit-in outside Swasthya Bhawan on Friday. They would hold a march from Swasthya Bhawan, the state health department headquarters, to CBI office at CGO Complex in Salt Lake area before lifting the sit-in.
‘It has been decided that given the flood situation in West Bengal and the state government agreeing to demands of ours, we will be rejoining emergency and essential services partially from Saturday. We are withdrawing our cease work partially’, an agitating doctor said after their general body meeting.
The protesting doctors said they will not work in the Out Patient Department (OPD) but will work partially in emergency and essential services. ‘We will withdraw our sit-in outside Swasthya Bhawan on Friday after the march to the CBI office. We will wait for a week for implementation of all the promises made by the West Bengal government and if unfulfilled, we will resume cease work’ the doctors said, adding that their fight for justice has not ended.
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