Kolkata rape and murder: Protesting doctors to partially withdraw strike from Saturday
The doctors will resume essential and emergency services, but out-patient departments will remain suspended.
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The junior doctors protesting against the rape and murder of their colleague in Kolkata announced on Thursday that they will resume essential and emergency services from Saturday. Out-patient departments, however, will remain suspended.
The doctors added that they would end their sit-in protest at the Swasthya Bhawan, which is the headquarters of the state health department, after marching to the Central Bureau of Investigation office on Friday. However, the “fight for justice” would continue, the doctors added.
The 31-year-old trainee doctor was raped and murdered at the state-run RG Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata on August 9.
For more than a month, the West Bengal Junior Doctors’ Front has been leading protests demanding the resignation of several senior officials and an end to the “threat culture” in West Bengal’s medical centres.
On September 17, the West Bengal government accepted a key demand of the protestors, and announced the removal of Kolkata Police Commissioner Vineet Goyal, Deputy Commissioner of Police (North) Abhishek Gupta, Director of Medical Education Debashish Halder and Director of Health Services Koustav Nayek from their posts.
However, later that day, the doctors said that certain key aspects from their five-point demands were left unresolved and sought another meeting with the state government.
At a second meeting on Wednesday, the junior doctors demanded...
