Doctors' are expected to decide the venue for the meeting with the government in a general body meet.
Agitating junior doctor a day after West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's presser are likely to discuss the matter to end the impasse in the state, causing hundreds of patients to suffer.
Junior doctors' who have been on strike for several days now are demanding full-proof security and safe atmosphere to work after the incident of a junior doctor who was brutally thrashed by a patient's family members who had died.
According to reports, as doctors might decide to discuss the matter and end this impasse, they are yet to decide the venue for talks and whom to talk, Chief Ministe Banerjee or Bengal governor.
Doctors' are expected to decide the venue for the meeting with the government in a general body meet.
On Saturday, junior doctors in Kolkata turned down Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's appeal to end their stir and resume duty, saying there was no honest effort on her part to break the deadlock.
(With inputs from ANI and PTI)
1. Willing to discuss matter to end impasse: Agitating junior doctors'
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Junior doctors, who have been agitating in the state for days now protesting against the state administration of not being able to provide secure working conditions after a junior doctor was thrashed by a patient's family members, said that they were willing to discuss the matter to end the impasse.
However, they are yet to decide whether to discuss the matter with Bengal Chief Minister or Governor. The venue of the meeting with the government will be discussed today in a general body meeting. (Photo: ANI)
2. Will decide where to go and where not to: Mamata on if she will visit NRS
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On Saturday, Mamata Banerjee had said that she has fulfilled all demands of junior doctors but only committed to providing security on hospital to doctors.
Speaking on doctors' demand of visiting NRS, she said she will decide where to go and where not to. Responding to an apology being demanded by doctors from her on this entire issue, Mamata Banerjee said that media may apologise on her behalf. (Photo: ANI)
3. Emergency services to face hurdles at JIPGMER on Monday
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In a show of solidarity support, Jawaharlal Institute of Post Graduate Medical Education and Research (JIPGMER) announced that OPD, Laboratory and Elective Surgeries services will remain suspended on Monday.
The notice has been issued in solidarity with protesting doctors in Kolkata, who have refused to blink and go back to their duties, following a gruesome attack on a fellow practitioner.
The doctors of JIPGMER have decided to participate in the nationwide 24-hour strike called by the Indian Medical Association from 6 am on Monday.
"In view of the strike announced by Junior Residents Doctors Association, all OPD services, laboratory services and elective surgeries will remain suspended on Monday".
The agitation across the nation broke out following clashes between junior doctors and relatives of a 75-year-old patient who died due to alleged medical negligence in Kolkata.
Amid the scuffle a junior doctor, Paribaha Mukhopadhyay sustained a serious skull injury and was admitted in the intensive care unit of the Institute of Neurosciences in Kolkata's Park Circus area. (Photo: ANI)
4. Mamata rubbishes MHA's claim of 'poor' law and order in Bengal
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West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Saturday rubbished the claims of the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) about "poor" law and order in the state, saying the Centre should send such advisories to states like Uttar Pradesh and Gujarat where "several murders have been reported in the last couple of years".
The MHA sought separate reports from the West Bengal government on the ongoing doctors' strike and on political violence that has left 160 people dead in the past four years. (Photo: ANI)
