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Healthcare svcs affected in Bengal as junior docs continue ceasework | India News


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The court said judges and doctors cannot strike since they deal with matters involving life and liberty (Photo: PTI)


Healthcare services were affected at state-run hospitals in West Bengal on Saturday as junior doctors continued their ceasework for the 16th consecutive day to protest the alleged rape and murder of a postgraduate trainee at R G Kar Medical College and Hospital.


Senior doctors were attending to patients at the emergency services at government hospitals.


“Our protest will continue till justice is served to our sister. There cannot be any alternative to that,” an agitating doctor at theKMCH told PTI.


The Supreme Court on Thursday reiterated its appeal to the doctors protesting over the rape and killing of the medic to resume work and directed that no coercive action would be taken against them.


The court said judges and doctors cannot strike since they deal with matters involving life and liberty.


Apart from demanding justice for the woman medic, the junior doctors have been pressing for the removal of several people in theKMCH’s administration.


Bowing to their demand, the West Bengal government on Wednesday night removed three senior officials of the Kar Medical College and Hospital and also cancelled the order to shift the hospital’s former principal Sandip Ghosh as principal of Calcutta National Medical College and Hospital.


On August 9, the police recovered the body of a woman postgraduate trainee doctor from the seminar hall of theKMCH.


A civic volunteer was arrested the next day for his alleged involvement in the crime.

(Only the headline and picture of this report may have been reworked by the Business Standard staff; the rest of the content is auto-generated from a syndicated feed.)

First Published: Aug 24 2024 | 10:55 AM IST

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