"Compelled To...": Bengal Doctors Resume Strike Over RG Kar Hospital Killing
NDTV
Ten days ago the junior doctors stood down from a month-long agitation after meeting Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, and returned to provide essential and emergency services only.
Junior doctors in Bengal - protesting the rape and murder of a colleague at Kolkata's RG Kar Hospital on August 8 - resumed their 'indefinite' strike Tuesday, pressing, once again, for demands that include ensuring safety and security of medical professionals at all hospitals and clinics in the state.
"We are compelled to return to a full 'ceasework' starting today. 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 striking doctors said in a statement issued this morning.
They also criticised the "slow"-paced CBI investigation into their colleague's murder, saying, "We have seen many times before that the CBI has been unable to reach any conclusions, allowing the real culprits of such incidents to go free due to delays in filing charges..."
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