R.G. Kar issue: Doctors threaten to go on strike in Bengal on Oct 22 if demands not met
The Hindu
Agitating medics in West Bengal threaten country-wide strike on October 22 over demands for justice and workplace security.
Agitating junior doctors in West Bengal, who have been seeking justice for their deceased colleague at R.G. Kar Medical College and Hospital, on Friday (October 18, 2024) threatened to hold a strike by all medics in the State on October 22 if their demands are not met.
Stating that they are in talks with their colleagues in other States, the medics said there may also be a country-wide strike by doctors on Tuesday (October 22, 2024) over the issue.
The junior medics said that they, along with senior doctors, have given a deadline to the State government till October 21 to fulfil their demands.
"We want the Chief Minister (Mamata Banerjee) to sit for a discussion and implement all our demands," Debasish Halder, one of the agitating junior doctors, told reporters.
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"Unless this is done, all the junior and senior doctors of both government and private healthcare facilities will be forced to go on strike on Tuesday," he said after a meeting between the junior doctors and their seniors here.
Claiming that the doctors were not against the interest of the people, he said they had withdrawn their earlier cease work for the same.
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