Kolkata doctor rape-murder case: FEMA calls 2-day strike in Siliguri Medical Colleges

Darjeeling: The Federation of Medical Association (FEMA) has announced a two-day pen-down strike at private and government medical colleges and hospitals in Siliguri, protesting the rape and murder of a woman doctor at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital.

Earlier, Union Minister Sukanta Majumdar urged BJP workers and people of West Bengal to join the doctors' protest in large numbers.

He said that the West Bengal government had promised to fulfil doctors' demands during the meeting with the Chief Minister but has rescinded on it, since.

According to an ANI report, Majumdar said in a press release, "The West Bengal BJP extends its full support to the Junior Doctor's Front in their agitation against the Mamata Banerjee Govt. The demands made by protesting doctors, in the aftermath of the gruesome rape and murder of a lady doctor at RG Kar Medical College & Hospital, is legitimate, and must be fulfilled. West Bengal Govt had promised to meet doctors' demands during the meeting with the Chief Minister but have rescinded on it, since."  

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He further appealed the BJP workers and people of West Bengal to join the doctors' protest.  

"I encourage all BJP Karyakartas to join the doctors' protest in large numbers. I also urge the people of West Bengal to be a part of this movement and get heard. We have to protect our doctors and save Bengal from the dark forces, which are helming the affairs of the State at the moment," he added.

Medical Dialogues had earlier reported that after the West Bengal government invited various doctors’ associations for an emergency meeting to seek a resolution, the Federation of All India Medical Association (FAIMA) has decided to postpone its nationwide shutdown of elective services in hospitals in solidarity with the protesting junior doctors who are on indefinite hunger strike since October 5.

The protest follows over 65 days of demonstrations advocating for safer working conditions and highlights the West Bengal government's neglect of doctors currently on an indefinite hunger strike for the past week.

Around 50 senior doctors and faculty members of RG Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata resigned 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, the FAIMA said, news agency ANI reported.

On August 9, a woman trainee doctor was found dead in the seminar hall of RG Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata.

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