Doctors are on strike since August 10. They have been protesting against Swasthya Bhawan in Kolkata since September 10.
After a 41-day strike against the rape-murder of a trainee doctor in Kolkata on August 9, junior doctors have announced a return to work. Doctors gave this information in a press conference late on Thursday night.
He said he will join duty from Saturday, September 21. However, their strike will continue partially. Doctors said that our fight for justice is not over. We are giving a week's time to the Bengal government. If all our demands are not met within this period, the strike will be resumed.
According to the doctors, they will end their protest on Friday, September 20, outside the Swasthya Bhavan in Kolkata's Salt Lake. They have been on strike here since September 10. Doctors will march from Swasthya Bhawan to CBI office before ending the protest.
Then the next day they will return to duty in their respective colleges. The doctors said they would only provide emergency services for now. Medical camps will also be organized in the flood affected areas from Friday. However, the work of junior doctors in OPDs and cold operating theaters will remain closed as before.
Doctors will march from Swasthya Bhawan to CBI office before ending the protest.
Doctors demanding removal of Health Secretary The doctors have been on strike since August 10 regarding their 5 demands. The Bengal government held a meeting with the doctors on September 16. After the meeting, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said that we have accepted 3 out of 5 demands of the doctors. He also appealed to the doctors to end the strike.
However, the doctors stood firm on the health secretary's demand to end the culture of intimidation in hospitals. The doctors held a two-and-a-half-hour meeting with Bengal Chief Secretary Manoj Pant on Wednesday, September 18, regarding their demands, but there was no result.
Doctors are firm on their demand for removal of state health secretary NS Nigam. The doctors said they were dissatisfied with the talks with the government and would continue their strike. The doctors alleged that in the meeting, the state government had asked for the written minutes of the meeting, which the government refused to provide.
The West Bengal Medical Council canceled the registration of Sandeep Ghosh Meanwhile, the West Bengal Medical Council has canceled the registration of Sandeep Ghosh, former principal of RG Kar Hospital. An explanation was first sought from Sandeep, but the council took this step when no clarification was received after more than 13 days.
On the other hand, new commissioner Manoj Verma arrived on Thursday to visit RG Kar College and Hospital. TMC's Rajya Sabha MP Jawahar Sarkar has resigned from the parliament in protest against this incident.
7 days of conflict over Mamata-Doctors meeting There was a struggle for 7 days over the visit of doctors and Mamata in Kolkata. After four attempts failed, a meeting of Mamata and a delegation of doctors was held at CM House on September 16. In this meeting, Mamata accepted 3 out of 5 demands of the doctors and asked them to return to work.
16 After the meeting of doctors and CM in September, four more officials of Dr. Health Department have also been transferred. Director of Medical Education Dr. Kaustuv Nayak was made Director of Health-Family Welfare. Director of Health Services Dr. Devashish Haldar has been made OSD of Public Health. Tripurari Atharva was elected as the Director of DEO.
Apart from this, the posts of 5 more police officers were also changed. Javed Shamim ADG Law and Order, Vineet Goyal ADG and IG Special Task Force, Gnanwant Singh ADG and IG Intelligence Bureau, Deepak Sarkar North Collector, Abhishek Gupta CO EFR Second Battalion are names included.
Mamata accepted 3 of the 5 demands of the doctors and asked them to return to work.
CBI said- Police did not seize important evidence for 2 daysThe CBI said on Wednesday morning that it took two days for the Kolkata police to seize the clothes and other items of accused Sanjay. This evidence could be important to this case. Indeed, the police arrested Roy on August 10 based on the CCTV footage. After this CBI arrested former principal Sandeep Ghosh and Tala police SHO Abhijit Mandal.
The CBI is probing the connection between Sanjay and Ghosh-Mandal The CBI said Ghosh and Mandal are accused of destroying evidence in the case with malicious intent. The connection between the two is now being investigated. Apart from this, whether there was a criminal conspiracy between Ghosh-Mandal and Sanjay is also being investigated. For this, the phone records of the three are being examined. The CBI said that Ghosh and Mandal also hurriedly cremated the trainee doctor, while the trainee doctor's parents demanded a second autopsy.
The victim's father said – if Mamata had taken action against Sandeep Ghosh in 2021, the daughter would have been aliveThe father of the victim trainee doctor has made a big accusation against Mamata Banerjee. He said that if Mamata had taken action against former college principal Sandeep Ghosh in 2021, her daughter would have been alive today.
The victim's father said- 'CBI is doing its job. All those who are in any way connected with the murder or involved in tampering with the evidence are being investigated. The protesting junior doctors are in agony. They are like my children. It also hurts us to see them like this.
The day the accused are punished is the day we will win. Even in the year 2021, many complaints were registered against the former principal of the college, Sandeep Ghosh, if the Chief Minister had taken action against Sandeep Ghosh at that time, my daughter would have been alive.
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