Doctors turn down Mamata's invite; demand apology

Doctors turn down the invite by West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee to resolve the ongoing dispute. They have sought an unconditional apology from the CM and laid down six conditions for the state government in order to withdraw the stir.

Published : Jun 15, 2019, 1:49 PM IST

Doctors turn down Mamata's invite, demand apology

Kolkata (West Bengal): Striking junior doctors turned down West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's invitation for a meeting at the state secretariat, which was called to resolve the impasse which entered Day 5 on Saturday.

The doctors, who are protesting against the assault on two of their colleagues at NRS Medical College and Hospital in Bengal, has sought an unconditional apology from the CM and have laid down six conditions with the state government to withdraw the stir.

Banerjee, who visited the state-run SSKM Hospital on Thursday amid slogans of "we want justice", had contended that outsiders were creating disturbances in the medical colleges and the ongoing agitation is a conspiracy by the CPI(M) and the BJP.

On Friday night, the agitating junior doctors had declined to attend a meeting called by Banerjee at the state secretariat, saying it was a ploy to break their stir.

Notably, over 300 senior doctors across various state-run medical college and hospitals resigned from their services in solidarity with their agitating colleagues.

Read: Patients' kin implore as Bengal doctor's strike continues

On Friday night, the agitating junior doctors had declined to attend a meeting called by Banerjee at the state secretariat, saying it was a ploy to break their stir.

Notably, over 300 senior doctors across various state-run medical college and hospitals resigned from their services in solidarity with their agitating colleagues.

Read: Patients' kin implore as Bengal doctor's strike continues

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Kolkata, Jun 15 (PTI) Striking junior doctors turned down Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's invitation for a meeting at the state secretariat, which was called to resolve the impasse, and continued their protest for the fifth consecutive day on Saturday.
The doctors, who are protesting against the assault on two of their colleagues at NRS Medical College and Hospital here, has sought unconditional apology from Banerjee and set six conditions for the state government in order to withdraw the stir.
"We are not going to the secretariat upon the invitation of the chief minister for the meeting. She will have to come to the Nil Ratan Sircar Medical College and Hospital and deliver an unconditional apology for the comments she made during her visit to the SSKM Hospital on Thursday," Arindam Dutta, spokesperson of the joint forum of junior doctors, told PTI.
"If she can go to the SSKM she can also come to the NRS... or else this agitation will go on," he said.
Banerjee, who visited the state-run SSKM Hospital on Thursday amid slogans of "we want justice", had contended that outsiders were creating disturbances in the medical colleges and the ongoing agitation is a conspiracy by the CPI(M) and the BJP.
On Friday night, the agitating junior doctors declined to attend a meeting called by Banerjee at the state secretariat, saying it was a ploy to break their stir.
After the protesting doctors did not turn up on Friday night, Banerjee asked the students to come to Nabanna, the state secretariat, at 5pm on Saturday, senior physician Sukumar Mukherjee said.
Mukherjee along with other senior doctors, who were not part of the agitation, met Banerjee on Friday.
They held a two-hour-long meeting with the chief minister at the secretariat to find a solution to the ongoing problem.
Notably, over 300 senior doctors across various state-run medical college and hospitals resigned from their services in solidarity with their agitating colleagues.
Governor Keshari Nath Tripathi last evening invited Banerjee to Raj Bhawan for a meeting to resolve the crisis. Banerjee, however, did not respond.
"I tried to contact the chief minister. I called her up. Till this moment there is no response from her. If she calls me up, we will discuss the matter," the governor told reporters after visiting Paribaha Mukhopadhyay, the doctor who was assaulted, at a hospital on Friday night.
Meanwhile, resident doctors of AIIMS and Safdarjung Hospital in Delhi have given a 48-hour ultimatum to Banerjee to meet the demands of the agitating doctors, failing which they said they would go on an indefinite strike. PTI SCH SBN
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