Key Takeaways
- Bengal medics serve ultimatum to CM, demanding sacking of Kolkata top cop by 5 pm.
- Junior doctors in Bengal adopt five key demands, including identifying culprits in lady medic rape and murder and providing safe environment in government hospitals.
- Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee faces heat as junior doctors in Bengal threaten to continue agitation if demands not met by 5 pm on Tuesday.
Kolkata: Adopting an aggressive approach, the agitating junior doctors in West Bengal have served an ultimatum to Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee to accept their demands, including the sacking of Kolkata Police Commissioner Vineet Goyal, by 5 pm on Tuesday or else they would not end their agitation by evening, despite a Supreme Court direction.
The ultimatum follows a day after the Apex Court told the agitating doctors to resume work by 5 pm on Tuesday as patients were suffering due to their absence from Outdoor Patient Departments.
“Let the government first concede our demands by 5 pm on Tuesday then we will consider our cease work or else we will hold the government responsible for the current state of affairs in hospitals,” said the medics in a joint media conference after a meeting late on Monday night.
The medics in a general body meeting adopted five resolutions, including identifying the culprits in the lady medic rape
and murder and giving them exemplary punishment and resignation of Kolkata Police chief.
Their other demands include resignation of health department’s principal secretary Narayan Swaroop Nigam and his two deputies and providing safe environment in the government hospitals.
The medics also slammed the chief minister’s appeal to join in the festivities and ensuing puja.
