Delhi AIIMS Doctors To Join Bengal Colleagues To Protest RG Kar Horror
NDTV
Protesting junior doctors from Bengal will be joined by colleagues from Delhi's All India Institute of Medical Sciences, who said they will hold a candlelight protest at the city's JLN Auditorium on Wednesday evening.
Junior doctors protesting August's rape and murder at Kolkata's RG Kar Hospital are on a fast-unto-death, setting up another potential face-off with Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee. Six people are on a hunger strike and this will continue for an "indefinite period (till) we get justice", they said last night. #WATCH | Kolkata, West Bengal | On hunger strike called by Junior Doctors, Dr Aqeeb says, "...Six of our people are sitting on hunger strike right now and we will continue for an indefinite period..Our only demand is we want justice in the RG Kar incident..." (06.10) pic.twitter.com/P2Bhl0z60Y
They will be joined this week by colleagues from Delhi's All India Institute of Medical Sciences, who said they will hold a candlelight protest at the city's JLN Auditorium on Wednesday evening.
Speaking to NDTV Monday morning, a doctor from AIIMS acknowledged his colleagues and he have a duty to their patients and the public and so could not strike indefinitely, but said, "The country has seen junior doctors of Bengal striking for 50 days. The demands have been clear since Day 1 - justice."
