KOLKATA, Jun 17: Doctors in West Bengal called off
their week-long strike on Monday night after Chief Minister Mamata
Banerjee assured them of steps to scale up security at government
hospitals in the state.
A spokesperson of the joint forum of doctors told reporters here that
the doctors will return to work as they want to give the state
government some time to implement the promises.
“Our meeting and discussion with the CM met a logical end. We
temporarily withdraw from our cease work. Considering everything we
expect the government to solve the issues as discussed in due time,” he
said after a meeting of the governing body at the Nil Ratan Sircar
Medical College and hospital.
The announcement came hours after Banerjee held a meeting with representatives of the striking doctors at the state secretariat.
The junior doctors of Bengal had gone on strike on Tuesday protesting
assault of their two colleagues by relatives and well wishers of a
patient who died in NRS hospital on Monday last.
During the meeting to end the impasse, Banerjee asked police to
appoint nodal officers for security of doctors at all government
hospital in the state.
The doctors’ delegation apprised Banerjee of the problems they have
been facing at medical colleges and hospitals and said they fear for
their safety.
West Bengal health secretary, MoS Chandrima Bhattacharya and other
state officials were present in the meeting, besides 31 junior doctors.
The end of the strike came as a big relief to hundreds of patients as
health services were paralysed across the state for a week.
“We have decided in our governing body meeting that we will be
returning to work as soon as possible,” the spokesperson for doctors’
forum said.
“We want to thank the chief minister for giving us some time. We want
to give the state government some time to implement the promises they
made to us. We also thank the common people…. We also seek forgiveness
from them who have suffered the most,” he said.
The junior doctors also thanked the chief minister for visiting
injured doctor Paribaha Mukhopadhyay at the hospital where he was
undergoing treatment.
“We are happy for that. She had promised us and went to see Paribaha at the hospital,” the spokesperson said. (PTI)
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