The West Bengal Junior Doctors’ Front (WBJDF), the umbrella body of the junior doctors spearheading the movement in support of their demands...
The West Bengal Junior Doctors’ Front (WBJDF), the umbrella body of the junior doctors spearheading the movement in support of their demands on the rape and murder of a lady junior doctor of R.G. Kar Medical College & Hospital in Kolkata, has cautioned the state government of resuming their total cease-work protest unless their demands in the matter are not fulfilled by October 21.
WBJDF
representative and one of the lead faces of the movement by junior doctors on
this issue, Debasish Halder told media persons on Friday night that they are
compelled to take this decision since the state government is reluctant to show
a compassionate approach in fulfilling their demands in the matter
“If the
Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee does not accept our demands by Monday, from
Tuesday we will be forced to go for total cease-work at medical colleges
& hospitals from Tuesday,” Halder said on Friday night.
He announced
this decision after a meeting between the junior and senior doctors. “The
decision was only after consultation with their senior colleagues,” said
Halder.
A mega rally
christened “Nyaybichar Yatra (Rally for Justice)”, seeking justice for the lady
doctor of R.G. Kar Medical College & Hospital who became a victim of
ghastly rape & murder of a junior doctor in August this year, had started
on Saturday evening.
As scheduled
the rally started from the residence of the victim at Panihati in North 24
Parganas district with its destination as Esplanade at central Kolkata, where
seven junior doctors are on fast-unto-death agitation in support of their
demands over the ghastly rape and murder.
Many people
also joined the rally in the midway and as the rally proceeded towards the
destination its size grew in numbers. The protesting junior doctors are
scheduled to addressed the gathering at the end of the rally at Esplanade and
also announce their future course of action in the matter.
“As we have
always maintained the common people are the source of our strength. Today the
rally proves again how the common people have spontaneously extended their
support towards our justified movement,” said a junior doctor participating at
the rally.
Earlier in
the day, the Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has issued an appeal to the junior
doctors on hunger-strike to withdraw their protests and return to
duty.
A crucial
meeting Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee issued an appeal to the junior doctors on hunger strike to withdraw their protests and return between the Chief Minister and the representatives of West Bengal
Junior Doctors’ Front (WBJDF), the umbrella body spearheading the movement in
the matter, is scheduled on Monday at 5 p.m.
Earlier, Sayantani Ghosh Hazra, a junior doctor of K.P.C. Medical College & Hospital and who is one of the six doctors initiating the hunger strike at Esplanade since the evening of October 5, raised a question on how the Chief Minister could get swayed in Durga Puja celebration when so many junior doctors are on hunger- strike.
“Does not
she have any sense of humanity? Could she not visit us just once and assure us
of fulfilling our demands” Sayantani said.
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