Junior docs call off ‘total cease work’

KOLKATA, Oct 4: The West Bengal Junior Doctors’ Forum (WBJDF), spearheading the movement against the ghastly rape and murder of a junior doctor of R.G. Kar Medical College & Hospital in August this year, on Friday announced its decision to withdraw the cease-work demonstration considering the interest of the common people who come for medical services at state-run hospitals.
However, WBJDF representative Debasish Halder said that the junior doctors will start a fast-unto-death agitation if their demands that are within the jurisdiction of the West Bengal government are not fulfilled within 24 hours.
WBJDF had already laid out the conditions for withdrawal of their ongoing cease-work agitation that resumed on Tuesday.
According to them, the first of their 10 demands relates to the protracted judicial process to ensure justice for the rape and murder of the victim, whose fulfillment depends on the CBI and the Supreme Court.
Meanwhile, a WBJDF representative said the fate of the remaining nine demands depend on how serious the state government is about fulfilling them. (IANS)