Doctors continue hunger strike demanding justice and workplace safety

Kolkata, Oct 6: Agitating junior doctors demanding justice for the deceased woman medic of the Kar Medical College and Hospital and workplace safety continued their hunger strike until death on Sunday in the central part of the city’s Dharmatala area.
Several senior doctors, who have been at the protest site since Saturday night, are also planning to join their junior counterparts in the hunger strike.
“The support of these people gives us the courage, the enthusiasm to continue our protest against the gruesome murder of our sister. We are happy to see that people have not forgotten that justice is yet not given and attacks on doctors are still on and the state government has no serious note of our demands,” Debasish Halder, one of the agitating doctors, told PTI.
The junior medics started their hunger strike untill death on Saturday night after the state government missed the 24-hour deadline of fulfilling their demands by 8.30 pm on Saturday.
They had on Friday begun a sit-in demonstration at the Dorina crossing in Dharmtatala area following an alleged assault by Kolkata Police personnel.
To maintain transparency, the junior medics have installed CCTV cameras at the dais where their colleagues are holding the strike.
The six doctors who were sitting on the fast were identified as Snigdha Hazra, Tanaya Panja and Anustup Mukhopadhyay of Kolkata Medical College and Hospital, SSKM Hospital’s Arnab Mukhopadhyay, Pulastha Acharya of NRS Medical College and Hospital, and Sayantani Ghosh Hazra of KPC Medical College.
The state would be held responsible if any doctor fell ill during the fast, the junior doctor said.
A large number of common people gathered at the protest site and a few celebrities also joined them at the protest site since Saturday night. (PTI)