At North Bengal Medical College and Hospital 119 doctors quit their jobs Veteran actress and filmmaker Aparna Sen addresses junior doctors in Kolkata on Friday during their strike in protest against an attack on an intern at Nil Ratan Sircar Medical College and Hospital.Closely following them, 126 doctors of R.At SSKM Hospital, where Ms Banerjee, also the health minister, declared during a visit on Thursday her threat to take steps against the doctors if they would not join their duty, 175 doctors from various departments tendered their resignations.Till the reports last came in more than 550 doctors submitted their resignations to the Trinamul Congress government demanding better security, but Ms Banerjee remained unfazed despite the situation spinning out of her control.Meanwhile, nephew of Ms Banerjee and two top Trinamul Congress leaders’ children, serving as doctors in government hospital, joined their agitating colleagues on Friday.
The mass resignations came a day after chief minister Mamata Banerjee warning of strict action against protesting doctors if they do not resume work. With a poster in hand, he was seen at the protest in his college on Friday.The doctors, including heads of departments of medical colleges and other hospitals in Kolkata, Burdwan, Darjeeling and North 24 Parganas districts, sent their resignation letters to the state director of medical education, said a senior health department official.State junior doctors have been agitating since Tuesday China kinesiology tapes Factory demanding security for themselves in government hospitals, after two of their colleagues were attacked and seriously injured allegedly by relatives of a patient who died at the NRS Medical College and Hospital. I had seen some outsiders raising slogans (at SSKM hospital)”“Please check where the boy, who was giving a statement in NRSMCH, works. How can he become a junior doctor? I had spoken about outsiders’ presence although all of them were not,” she said.A combative Trinamul supremo blamed the BJP for the trouble and told a rally at Kanchrapara in North 24 Parganas, “Outsiders are instigating the doctors.
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