Bengal horror: One more doctor taken ill as hunger strike enters 10th day
Insight Online News
Kolkata, Oct 14 : One more fasting junior doctor in West Bengal was admitted to a city hospital following sickness related to an indefinite hunger strike which entered its 10th day on Monday to demand justice for the a woman colleague who was murdered and raped in a state-owned Kolkata hospital on August 9, official sources said.
Kulastha Acharyra was admitted at the Critical Care Unit at the NRS Hospital on Sunday night. So far four junior medics have been admitted to different hospitals in the past 72 hours since the fast unto death started on October 5.
Now six junior medics in Kolkata and one in North Bengal are on a hunger strike. Besides, 32 senior medics have launched a symbolic fast at Esplanade where their juniors were on fast.
West Bengal Chief Secretary Manoj Pant has invited both senior and junior doctors from different medic forum for a meeting at Swasthya Bhawan on Monday afternoon to find out a solution to end the logjam over the demands of the West BengaL Junior Doctors Front, which is spearheading agitation since the 31-year-old 2nd year post graduate lady resident doctor was found raped and murder at her working place RG Kar Hospital on August 9.
In an email on Sunday, Pant invited different doctor forums to send two representatives each in the meeting.
In another email, he also requested the medical fraternity not to organise human chain across the central and south Kolkata on Tuesday when the government has decided to host carnival of the Durga Puja immersion at Red Road, close to Babughat where the idols are immersed.
