R G Kar: Talks fail again; junior doctors in scuffle with police
While some 20 representatives from medical colleges across the state attended the meeting at Swasthya Bhawan, the state was represented by Chief Secretary Manoj Pant, Home Secretary Nandi Mukherjee, and DGP Rajeev Kumar, among others.
West Bengal Governor C V Ananda Bose meets protesting junior doctors in Kolkata on Wednesday as their indefinite hunger strike entered its fifth day. Express photo Junior doctors in West Bengal protesting the rape and murder of a trainee doctor at Kolkata’s RG Kar hospital said on Wednesday night that talks with senior state officials failed to break the deadlock and that it was “the most disappointing meeting so far”.
After the two-hour meeting, the doctors alleged they received nothing concrete from the state except “verbal assurances” since the government refused to issue written directives on their demands to ensure a “thorough clean-up” of the state healthcare system and step up their safety and security within medical college campuses.
While some 20 representatives from medical colleges across the state attended the meeting at Swasthya Bhawan, the state was represented by Chief Secretary Manoj Pant, Home Secretary Nandi Mukherjee, and DGP Rajeev Kumar, among others.
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