RG Kar Medical College: Junior doctors end hunger strike after 17 days, decision taken after meeting CM Mamata

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Kolkata: Junior doctors on hunger strike in RG Kar Medical College case have taken a big decision after meeting CM Mamata. Junior doctors have ended their hunger strike after 17 days. There will be no health strike tomorrow. However, junior doctors will continue their agitation in different ways. In the coming days, junior doctors will do various agitations by taking out processions, etc. They will announce their program in the coming days.

The junior doctors will tell later how the agitation of the junior doctors will be in the coming days. For now, they are withdrawing from their hunger strike and returning to work. They are also withdrawing from tomorrow’s health strike program. There will be no strike tomorrow.

What is the matter?

Junior doctors have been on continuous strike since the rape and murder of a trainee doctor at Kolkata’s RG Kar Hospital. For the last two weeks, junior doctors have been on a continuous hunger strike at Dharmatalla in Kolkata. Recently, Chief Secretary Manoj Pant and Home Secretary Nandini Chakraborty met the doctors on hunger strike.

CM Mamata Banerjee had spoken to the junior doctors on hunger strike through Chief Secretary Manoj Pant. The junior doctors had told Mamata Banerjee their 10-point demands over the phone. After this, the Chief Minister said that most of the demands had been accepted. After that, if there is any problem, then representatives of 10 junior doctors have been called to the Chief Minister’s office in Nabanna for a face-to-face meeting on next Monday.

Earlier, the matter of the resignation of 50 doctors of RG Kar Medical College and Hospital had come to light. These doctors had taken this step to show solidarity with the doctors who have been on hunger strike since October 6, who are continuously demanding justice in the case of rape and murder of a female trainee doctor in RG Kar Medical College.