KGMCTA has been on protest since July 1, 2025 alleging failure of the government authorities to honour the assurances given over the years on various long-pending demands--including rectification of anomalies in the pay revision order, disbursement of salary and Dearness Allowance (DA) ar
The IMA representative and doctors marked their protest by tying black bands in their arms outside the district hospital for the release of Dr Soni. They also warned that if their demands were not met then the doctors of government hospitals as well as private clinics across the state wou
Resident Doctors Association (RDA) of All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) Patna held a protest today against Sheohar MLA Chetan Anand, alleging he, along with wife Dr Ayushi Singh, and his armed guards, forcibly entered the hospital area, physically assaulted security staff, thre
The young doctors in Pakistan's Punjab on Tuesday closed down operation theatres of several hospitals across the province after the police uprooted the protest camp of employees of state-run health facilities on Monday.
Tensions flared on Mall Road as police used water cannons to disperse protesting young doctors against outsourcing of hospitals, leaving two demonstrators--including Dr Shoaib Niazi, President of the Young Doctors Association (YDA) Punjab--unconscious during the chaos, as reported by the Daw
After Sealdah Court sentenced Sanjay Roy, the convict in the RG Kar rape and murder case, to life imprisonment, the father of the trainee doctor raised questions on the investigation conducted by CBI and Kolkata Police, saying that "we want justice, not compensation."
The junior doctors protesting over the RG Kar Medical College rape and murder case in Kolkata ended their hunger strike after a two-hour-long meeting with Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee at the state secretariat Nabanna on Monday night.
BJP MP Samik Bhattacharya has claimed that the Trinamool Congress is feeling pressured by the protest by junior doctors over the RG Kar rape and murder case and wants to suppress their protest.
Federation of Medical Association (FEMA) has called a two-day pen-down strike in private and government medical colleges and hospitals in Siliguri over issues including the RG Kar rape-murder case.
The Federation of All India Medical Associations (FAIMA) has announced a nationwide boycott of elective medical services starting October 14, 2024, in solidarity with their West Bengal colleagues as part of the doctors protest against rape and murder of a second year old trainee doctor at RG
Union Minister Sukanta Majumdar urged BJP workers and people of West Bengal to join doctors' protest in large numbers. He said that the West Bengal government had promised to meet doctors' demands during the meeting with the Chief Minister but have rescinded on it, since.