Doctor rape and murder case in Kolkata: According to news agency PTI, junior physicians in West Bengal began to “cease work” on Tuesday in an effort to put pressure on the Mamata Banerjee administration to meet a number of requests, including guaranteeing their safety and security at all medical facilities.
Following an eight-hour conference, the younger physicians made their choice. Ten requests have been made in relation to enhancing hospital security, enhancing medical facilities, and ending politics and threat culture in hospitals.
We must go back to a complete stopwork as of right now. The West Bengal Junior Doctors’ Front released a statement saying, “We will have no choice but to continue our full strike unless we receive clear action from the government on safety, patient services, and the politics of fear.”
After a 42-day strike, junior physicians at government hospitals largely resumed their jobs on September 21. They were protesting the August 9 rape and murder of a lady doctor who was on duty at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata by going on a cease-work agitation.
“We don’t see the state government taking a proactive stance to meet our requests for security and safety. We are still being targeted on this, the 52nd day of the protest, and no effort is being made to honor the other commitments made at the meetings with Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee. One of the incensed young physicians, Aniket Mahato, told PTI, “Given the current circumstances, we are left with no choice other than to opt for full cease work, starting today.”
“Unless we see clear action from the state government on these demands, this complete cease work will continue,” he stated.
The declaration was made one day after the Joint Platform of Doctors (JPD) was granted permission by the Calcutta High Court on Monday to hold a protest demonstration in the city on Tuesday over the rape and murder of the trainee doctor.
In response to a plea filed by the JPD, Justice Rajarshi Bharadwaj ordered the holding of a nonviolent demonstration that would travel from College Square in north Kolkata to Rabindra Sadan in the south, passing through Central Avenue and the Esplanade, between 5 and 8 p.m.
The court did not impose any limits despite the Kolkata Police’s plea to shorten the rally’s path and limit the number of participants. Rather, it directed the authorities to make sure that there were enough security guards and people to enable the demonstration to go on without incident, all under the direction of the Joint Commissioner of Police (headquarters) of the Kolkata Police.Additionally, Justice Bharadwaj instructed the protest organizers to send out enough volunteers to oversee their followers and guarantee a calm gathering.
With an estimated 50,000 participants, the medics’ platform, speaking on behalf of the Association of Health Service Doctors, West Bengal, had petitioned the commissioner of the Kolkata Police to request permission to hold a protest demonstration from College Square to Rabindra Sadan between 5 and 8 p.m.
The event could still go forward with just 1,000 attendees and enough volunteers, the joint commissioner of police (headquarters) told the organizers, although the route would be from College Square to Rani Rashmoni Avenue at Esplanade.
As a result, the JPD filed a high court appeal to these limitations, claiming that it was unenforceable to restrict participation because the public was actively participating in the demonstration.
