Protesting Junior doctors to end sit-in, resume emergency services from September 21

Kolkata: Protesting junior doctors in West Bengal have announced they will ''partially'' lift their 'cease work' and resume duties in emergency and essential services at state-run hospitals starting Saturday, following the West Bengal government's acceptance of most of their demands.

The medics, who have been on strike for 41 days in response to the rape and murder of a woman doctor at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, will also end their sit-in outside Swasthya Bhawan on Friday.

According to the PTI report, before lifting the sit-in, they would hold a march from Swasthya Bhawan, the state health department headquarters, to CBI office at CGO Complex in the Salt Lake area.

“It has been decided that given the flood situation in West Bengal and the state government agreeing to certain demands of ours, we will be rejoining emergency and essential services partially from Saturday. We are withdrawing our cease work partially,” an agitating doctor said after their general body meeting.

The protesting doctors said they will not work in the Out Patient Department (OPD) but will work partially in emergency and essential services.

“We will withdraw our sit-in outside Swasthya Bhawan on Friday after the march to the CBI office. We will wait for a week for implementation of all the promises made by the West Bengal government and if unfulfilled, we will resume ‘cease work’,” the doctors said, adding that their fight for justice has not ended, news agency PTI reported.

Medical Dialogues team had earlier reported that agitating junior doctors in West Bengal announced that they would continue their cease-work movement over the rape and murder of a postgraduate trainee doctor after the second round of talks with the State Government failed.

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