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The West Bengal government on Saturday said mass resignations of doctors from government hospitals are invalid and should be submitted individually as per service rules.
Several doctors from the government hospital have submitted a jointly signed 'resignation' letter in support of young doctors on hunger strike, demanding justice for the gang-raped and murdered postgraduate trainees at the RG Kar medical college and hospital in Kolkata. – Death for pressing their demands.
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“Unless the employee personally sends a letter of resignation to the employer as per the service rules, it is not a letter of resignation,” Alapan Banerjee, principal advisor to West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, told reporters at the state secretariat.
He explained that the letters sent to doctors contained only collective signatures and did not address specific issues.
Banerjee stressed the government's intention to clarify the situation amid the confusion over mass resignations of senior doctors from RG Kar Medical College and various government hospitals, including IPGMER and SSKM hospitals.
Earlier this week, a group of senior doctors from RG Kar Medical College sent a jointly signed “mass resignation” letter in solidarity with their protesting junior colleagues. Then, doctors from other state hospitals sent similar letters.
Junior doctors from several government hospitals in the state are on hunger strike, demanding justice for murdered colleagues, the resignation of the health secretary and increased safety at work.
The government has insisted that health care delivery in state hospitals will not be disrupted as senior doctors continue to work as usual. On October 4, junior doctors called off the “total closure” of state medical colleges and hospitals.
The government said the mass resignation was interpreted as a symbolic gesture of solidarity between senior doctors and their younger counterparts.
Doctors of a private hospital on Saturday called for partial work stoppage for 48 hours at medical facilities across West Bengal from October 14, expressing solidarity with agitating junior doctors who are on hunger strike demanding justice for the victims of RG Kar Hospital.
However, doctors under the banner of health care workers in private hospitals stated that emergency services will remain open in all medical facilities.
Maintaining that the West Bengal government has not taken any positive action in response to the demands of the agitating doctors at the government hospital, the doctors expressed that the entire community is worried and worried about the situation.
“From October 14, most doctors in private facilities will not perform any non-emergency duties,” doctors told reporters.
“However, we will ensure that no patient suffers as a result of this as all emergency services will continue to operate,” they said.
The partial strike will start on October 14 at 6:00.
Doctors say that if they do not get an appropriate response from the government, their agitation may continue.
“We call on the government to pay attention to the demands of protesting doctors and consider them with compassion. If we receive an appropriate response from them, we will resume normal operations,” the doctors said in a statement.
They expressed concern about the health of young doctors on hunger strike, demanding justice for a postgraduate student who was raped and murdered at the RG Kar government medical school and hospital in August. Greater safety at work and a transparent system of referrals and admissions to government hospitals.
Of the 11 doctors on hunger strike, two were admitted to hospital as their condition deteriorated.
Hundreds of protesters, comprising doctors, lawyers and civil society members, on Saturday led a march to the CBI office in the CGO Complex in Salt Lake, demanding fair and speedy justice in connection with the brutal murder and rape of a woman doctor in the state-owned RG. Kar Medical College and Hospital.
Hailing from the Mercy area of Salt Lake, protesters chanted “We Want Justice” and marched toward the CGO complex a few miles away.
They expressed “surprise” by the CBI as the chargesheet of the central investigating agency virtually confirmed the findings of the Kolkata Police investigation in which one Sanjay Roy was arrested as the sole culprit, currently in custody.
“We are wondering how the CBI can support the Kolkata Police investigation contained in the chargesheet submitted a few days ago. We believe it lacks transparency and those behind this brutality should be exposed,” said one protester.
The road leading to the CBI office in the CGO complex was barricaded by the police.
However, five representatives of the protesters were allowed into the CBI office to submit a memorandum of demands.
CBI is investigating the rape and murder of doctors at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital.
