RG Kar Case: Junior doctors to go on hunger strike if demands not met by Bengal govt

RG Kar protests (File image)

Agitating junior doctors have threatened to launch an indefinite hunger strike if their demands are not met by the West Bengal government within 24 hours from October 4 evening.

Agitating junior doctors in Bengal made this announcement after calling off their “total cease work” call.

Earlier this evening they had begun a sit-in protest on a road in central Kolkata’s Dharmatala area alleging that the police lathi-charged a few of them during a rally to press for justice for the deceased woman doctor of RG Kar hospital.

"Two of our colleagues waiting near a road (in Dhrmatala) for us were beaten up by the police. We do not know the reason. We were conducting a peaceful rally here and had permission to hold a press conference here. We protest this attitude of the policemen. Police have to apologise, else we will continue with our demonstration," one of the junior doctors told news agency PTI.

The doctors had earlier gone on a complete 'cease work' for 42 days following the rape and murder of a fellow medic at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital on August 9.

They ended their strike on September 21 after discussions with state officials, resuming essential services.

The medics, however, renewed their 'cease work' on October 1 after an attack on them by a patient's family at the state-run College of Medicine & Sagore Dutta Hospital the previous week.

(With PTI inputs)