Ending Their 42-Day Strike Partially Bengal Jr Doctors Rejoin Duties

Kolkata: Agitating Junior doctors rejoined their duties partially on Saturday morning at various government-run hospitals in West Bengal. They joined for duty after 42 days strike.

The junior doctors had taken up ‘cease work’ agitation to protest against the rape and murder of an on-duty woman doctor at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital.

The junior doctors rejoined their duties in essential and emergency services at all state-run hospitals. But they will not attend to the outpatient department (OPD).

Several junior doctors also left for flood-hit districts of West Bengal where they would start ‘Abhaya clinics’ (medical camps).

The agitating doctors said that they would wait for another seven days for the administration to fulfil their demands for justice for the deceased doctor and the removal of the state health secretary or else they would start another round of ‘cease work’.

The doctors had started ‘cease work’ agitation from August 9, the day when the body of a woman medic was found at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital.