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Agitating junior doctors announced to “partially” withdraw their ‘cease work’ and rejoin emergency and essential services at state-run hospitals from Saturday, as the West Bengal government has accepted most of their demands.
According to PTI, The medics, who have been on ‘cease work’ for the last 41 days following the rape and murder of a woman doctor at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital on August 9, announced that they would lift their sit-in outside Swasthya Bhawan .
Before lifting the sit-in, they would march from Swasthya Bhawan, the state health department headquarters, to the CBI office at CGO Complex in the Salt Lake area.
“It has been decided that given the flood situation in West Bengal and the state government agreeing to certain demands of ours, we will be rejoining emergency and essential services partially from Saturday. We are withdrawing our cease work partially,” an agitating doctor said on Thursday after their general body meeting.
The protesting doctors said they would not work in the Outpatient Department but would partially work in emergency and essential services.
“We will withdraw our sit-in outside Swasthya Bhawan on Friday after the march to the CBI office. We will wait for a week for the West Bengal government to implement all its promises and if unfulfilled, we will resume ‘cease work’,” the doctors said, adding that their fight for justice has not ended.
This decision came after the state government issued several directives regarding safety and security at hospitals and medical colleges.
“We will withdraw our sit-in outside Swasthya Bhawan on Friday after march to the CBI office,” the doctors said.
The protesting doctors added that they would continue their ‘cease work’ at the Outpatient Department (OPD) but would resume partial emergency and essential services in all departments.
The agitating junior doctors in West Bengal, who have announced withdrawal of their sit-in before Swasthya Bhavan, will hold a march to the CBI office in Salt Lake on Friday, seeking justice for the alleged rape and murder of a medic in the state-run RG Kar hospital last month.
Ending the logjam persisting for the last 41 days, the junior doctors had on Thursday announced partial resumption of duties entailing the attending essential services in state-run hospitals from Saturday.
To mark the withdrawal of their 10-day dharna near the state health department’s headquarters, they will organise the procession from their protest site to the CGO Complex, a distance of around 4 km, demanding a quick wrap-up of investigations.
