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West Bengal doctors' strike: Doctors from pan India on a day-long strike in support of Kolkata doctors| Latest Updates

June 14, 2019
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Healthcare facilities in West Bengal government-run hospitals on Friday continued to rattle as protesting doctors carried on their strike in spite of repeated requests by patients' families to start treatment.
The junior medical practitioner at the  Nil Ratan Sircar(NRS) Medical College and Hospital - the center of the protests - continued their agitation. However, hospital gates were opened allowing normalcy of emergency services.
The halted work at the outpatient departments (OPDs) remained in most of the state-run hospitals.
At the same time, over 4,500 doctors in Maharashtra begun their one-day manifestation strike to express harmony with their Kolkata counterparts.
Health services in Delhi also were broadly affected on Friday as doctors at the critically important AIIMS and Safdarjung Hospitals joined the agitation. AIIMS' centers in Patna, Raipur, Rajasthan, Punjab also joined the agitation.


 HERE ARE THE CURRENT UPDATES ON THE AGITATION ACROSS INDIA:
  • Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research doctors join the protest.
    Around 1,200 resident doctors at the Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER) held a token to express solidarity with their agitating counterparts in Kolkata.
    The working of the OPDs was partially hit due to the protest. 
    However, Dr. Uttam Kumar Thakur, head of the Association of Resident Doctors at the PGIMER, said all emergency services operated normally and the on-duty doctors did not join the agitation. 
    The protest was for five hours from 8 am to 1 pm and the doctors returned to work after it.


  • Bengal doctors decided for mass resignation

    Doctors of two Medical colleges have acknowledged mass resignations.
    In a letter to the Director of Medical Education and Ex-officio Secretary, over 70 doctors surrendered their resignations. 
    As per informed sources, the number of doctors submitting their resignation is rising steadily.
    "We the following doctors of R.G. Kar Medical College have so far been trying our level best to run the hospital service smoothly. You are aware that the present situation is not ideal for patient care service," the doctors wrote.
    "In response to the prevailing situation, as we are unable to provide service, we the following doctors would like to resign from our duty," they wrote in the letter.
    The alike picture was noticed in North Bengal Medical College and Hospital in Siliguri.
    "Already 15 senior doctors have submitted their resignation to Director of Medical Education and this figure may rise. It is not possible to carry on the services normally without the junior doctors," Sudipta Mandal, Assistant Superintendent of North Bengal Medical College and Hospital said as the stopped work by the Junior doctors of government-run hospital entered the fourth day. 

  • Odisha doctors join the protest

    Around 500 resident doctors, junior and interns of All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) Bhubaneswar begun a day-long strike on Friday, though emergency services at the leading health institute remained unaffected.
    The Residents' Doctor Association, AIIMS, Bhubaneswar said they were upset about the horrifying attack on the fellow doctors.
  • Students of the SCB Medical College and Hospital and the members of the Odisha Medical Services Association (OMSA) took out a march in Cuttack on Thursday to protest against the barbarous assault on the fellow doctors of West Bengal.
  • Patients' relative beg as strike continues
    "Please resume the work and do not make the dialysis patients and pregnant women suffer as they are not at fault. I apologize on behalf of all the patients of Bengal," a patient's relative begged to NRS doctors with folded hands. He appealed the doctors to understand, saying poor people would suffer without treatment.
    "There is nothing to apologize. Who are we to forgive? Our only demand is our security and we will continue the movement till we are given some assurance," said one of the agitating doctors at NRS.
    A pregnant woman's family was refused treatment and she was told that the hospital would not take any accountability.
  • NRS Medical College principal Saibal Mukherjee has resigned
    NRS Medical College principal Saibal Mukherjee put his paper down to the Director - Medical Education on Thursday. The hospital's Medical Superintendent and Vice Principal Sourav Chatterjee also submitted his resignation
  •  West Bengal minister Firhad Hakim's daughter, a doctor, registered her strong criticism to CM Mamata Banerjee's way of the current doctors' protest and said doctors have the right to "peaceful protest" and "safety at work.
       In her Social Media post, Shabba Hakim requested people to question why "goons were still surrounding hospitals and beating up doctors".
"As a TMC supporter I am deeply ashamed at the inaction and the silence of our leader," She said on Facebook last night.
  • Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's nephew Abesh Banerjee, a student at Kolkata's KPC Medical College Hospital, has also sat down in the doctors' agitation.
  • The doctors, associated with the Maharashtra Association of Resident Doctors (MARD), canceled attending to patients in all the 26 government hospitals in the state together.
  • MARD General Secretary Deepak Mundhe told IANS the doctors would quash all routine duties between 8 am and 5 pm and the hospital administration has been informed to assure all other services are not hindered or patients inconvenienced.
  • A huge number of doctors assembled outside the KEM Hospital with banners, posters, and placards to show solidarity with the doctors who were assaulted in Kolkata.
  • Very much alike protests were also being held in Pune, Aurangabad, and Nagpur by MARD members who are demanding adequate protection for their counterparts in West Bengal.
  • Delhi patients are the worst hit, as doctors support their Kolkata counterparts
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THE CASE

The protests vented on Tuesday morning in Kolkata's government-run Nil Ratan Sircar(NRS) Hospital leading the regular services to a deadlock, after a junior doctor was beaten up by the relative of a 75-year-old patient who lost his life there on Monday night.
The kin of the deceased patient supposed medical carelessness. An intern named Paribaha Mukherjee got a serious skull injury in the attack and has been admitted in the ICU of the Institute of Neurosciences in Kolkata's Park Circus area.

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