Junior Dr Aloke Verma, currently on a hunger strike at North Bengal Medical College and Hospital, on Friday accused the local police of pressuring his patients and calling him to withdraw from the movement.
The Chief Secretary of West Bengal, Manoj Pant, has sent an email to junior doctors outlining the government's status report on health care initiatives aimed at improving safety and security in medical colleges across the state.
Dr RV Asokan, President of the Indian Medical Association (IMA), on Friday met with the West Bengal Junior Doctors Front, who are on a hunger strike over the RG Kar Medical College and Hospital murder-rape case in Esplanade, Kolkata.
The West Bengal Junior Doctors' Front on Thursday wrote a letter to Chief Secretary Manoj Pant, expressing frustration over the state government's silence regarding their concerns.
Sharma sat on Dharna at Roshanpura intersection in the state capital Bhopal and began his fast at around 11 am on Tuesday. The Congress leader demanded that strict action should be taken against the culprits and they should be hanged at crossroads.
Delhi's Tis Hazari Court has recently granted an imprisonment of 20 years in a case under POCSO for repeatedly raping and impregnating a 14 years old girl after giving her intoxicated drink in 2019.
Around 50 senior doctors and faculty members of RG Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata resigned on Tuesday in solidarity with their junior colleagues, who are on a hunger strike protesting the rape and murder of a trainee doctor on the institution's premises in August this year.
A 12-hour hunger strike is being held to demand better security in hospitals and to protest the August 9 incident when a woman trainee doctor was found dead in the seminar hall of RG Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata.
The incident occurred under the jurisdiction of the Civil Line police station in the district on Monday. According to the police, the accused is a neighbour of the minor and a case was registered against him in connection with rape and molestation in August this year and since then he was on