Reconsider decision: Senior Bengal doctors ask junior docs to scale down strike
Hindustan TimesKOLKATA: Junior doctors in West Bengal’s government hospitals who have been on strike on Thursday held a discussion with senior doctors to decide if they should continue with the complete cease work or scale down the agitation to a partial strike. Members of Bengal Junior Doctors' Front and others take part in a mega rally on October 2 to demand justice for the trainee doctor who was raped and killed at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata A section of senior doctors and professors in medical colleges have urged the junior doctors to reconsider their decision to continue the complete cease work till they see clear action by the government on safety of doctors and patient services. Junior doctors resumed the strike across all medical colleges and hospitals on October 1, arguing that the state government was yet to keep its promise of strengthening security and infrastructure in state-run hospitals. Unless we receive clear action from the government on safety, patient services, and the politics of fear, we will have no choice but to continue our full strike,” the West Bengal Junior Doctors’ Front said in a statement on Monday.