Doctors across the country will boycott work on Monday to express solidarity with their Bengal counterparts whose strike to protest the attack on an intern at a government-run hospital in Kolkata entered its fourth day. Junior doctors in Delhi, Mumbai and other cities have boycotted work today affecting medical services. Blaming the Mamata Banerjee government for the doctors' strike in Bengal, Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan appealed to her to "not make it a prestige issue". He also assured doctors across the country that the government is "committed to ensuring their safety".
The Indian Medical Association (IMA), the country's leading doctors' body, has called a nationwide strike on Monday. It will also ask Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah to bring out a central law against such violence.
Expressing their regret over being unable to contain the crisis in the medical college, Saibal Kumar Mukherjee (principal of NRSMC) and Saurabh Chattopadhyay (MSVP) resigned on Thursday.
The Indian Medical Association (IMA), the country's leading doctors' body, has called a nationwide strike on Monday. It will also ask Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah to bring out a central law against such violence.
Expressing their regret over being unable to contain the crisis in the medical college, Saibal Kumar Mukherjee (principal of NRSMC) and Saurabh Chattopadhyay (MSVP) resigned on Thursday.
Doctors at Kolkata's NSRMC have been agitating since Tuesday after their two colleagues were attacked allegedly by the family of a patient who died during treatment.
On Thursday, they defied Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's ultimatum to join work by 2 pm and said the agitation will continue till their demands related to security in government hospitals are met.
A team of doctors also met West Bengal Governor Keshari Nath Tripathi at Raj Bhavan over the issue and said the chief minister's reaction to their protest was unexpected.
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