West Bengal Govt sends show cause notice to doctors for strike
Kolkata: The West Bengal Government has issued a show-cause notice to striking doctors after a section of doctors, affiliated to the United Doctors Voice of Bengal, stayed away from work at out-patients departments in several private hospitals in the city to protest the alleged attacks on doctors by outsiders.
"We have issued show-cause notice to the clinical establishments under the West Bengal Clinical Establishments (Registration, Regulation and Transparency) Act, 2017. They have to respond by August 28," Director of Health Services B.R. Satpathi told IANS.
Meanwhile, demanding immediate intervention by the police, a spokesman of the association said, "We did not block any OPD. We did not resort to trade unionism, we did not ask our members to stop work, but our members responded by not attending OPDs."
"This is against increasing attacks on members of medical fraternity in the city, vandalisation of properties and refusal to pay bill for medical treatment," he said adding that over 4000 doctors affiliated to the association stayed away from OPDs in around 10 private hospitals.
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