Kolkata Junior Doctors Continue Strike, Seek Further Reforms and Meeting with CM Mamata Banerjee
Junior doctors in Kolkata continue their strike, seeking concrete action from the government on safety, healthcare reforms, and a second meeting with CM Mamata Banerjee.
Junior Doctors in Kolkata Continue Strike, Demand Concrete Reforms and a Second Meeting with CM Mamata Banerjee Following Partial Victory
Currently, junior doctors in Kolkata are on a strike that has intensified, following the removal of two top health department officials and appointment of a new police commissioner. As the doctors who were involved termed the movement as a ‘partial victory’, they insisted that they would go ahead with the strike until all their demands are met by the state government. While the Chief Minister of West Bengal, Mamata Banerjee has said that her government has accepted 99% of the demands of the junior doctors, the doctors began campaigning for the second meeting to get the action.
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A general body meeting conducted by the doctors regarding the topic came up and felt that there should be further deliberation on the safety of the doctors in the hospitals. They also demand an analysis of how the ₹100 crore will be utilised for enhancing measures of security in the state run hospitals. Also, they demand the dismissal of state health secretary NS Nigam on grounds that he was sacked by the chief minister who had promised to do so earlier.
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The doctors state that the profound permanent changes in hospital security are impossible without the overall changes in the organization of the public healthcare system, such as improved referral, staff recruitment and corruption-free admission processes. They also demanded formation of a special task force to look into these matters at that very moment; they demanded holding of students’ body election to have some mandate to actual bodies. Nevertheless, the junior doctors are politically averse to any compromise, as they remain determined to strike till they get full satisfaction.
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