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.
Junior doctors from the West Bengal Junior Doctors Front have begun an indefinite hunger strike in Kolkata over the RG Kar rape and murder case on Saturday.
The resident doctors at Delhi AIIMS will hold a candle march on October 9 reiterating their demand for justice for the victim of rape and murder at Kolkata's RG Kar Medical College and Hospital.
Earlier on Friday, the doctors had issued the Bengal state government a 24-hour ultimatum to meet their demands, warning that they will begin an indefinite hunger strike if unmet.
Junior doctors protesting against the recent rape and murder incident at RG Kar Medical College & Hospital on Friday have given the state government a 24-hour ultimatum to meet their demands, failing which they will go on an indefinite hunger strike.
Under Graduate and Post Graduate students, Junior doctors, and interns of North Bengal Medical College and Hospital held a torch-light procession against the rape and murder of a woman doctor in Kolkata's RG Kar Medical College and Hospital on Wednesday.
As the Supreme Court took cognisance of the pictures of Kolkata's RG Kar rape and murder victim's photos circulating on social media, the victim's father on Monday expressed trust in the top court in delivering justice to her.
The Supreme Court on Monday sought to place on record the report of the National Task Force in regards to safety and other issues related to professionals in the matter regarding the rape and murder of a PG trainee doctor at Kolkata-based RG Kar Medical College and Hospital.
Mondal and Ghosh were arrested by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in connection with the rape and murder of the woman trainee doctor at RG Kar Medical College.