Kolkata: Junior docs to continue strike, say want to know 'status of probe'

Medical Service Centre submits memorandum to Health Secy

- PRADIP CHATTERJEE

A meeting that was held between the junior doctors and senior health officials at Swasthya Bhawan on Saturday turned to be a "futile" exercise as the agitating junior doctors refused to withdraw their cease work in RG Kar Medical College and other hospitals and medical colleges.

The junior doctors claimed that they are not going to withdraw their cease work as of now as no significant development has taken place in connection with the probe into the alleged rape and murder of a postgraduate trainee at the RG Kar. Senior health officials urged the junior doctors saying that the health department has accepted their demands.

Security arrangements are being enhanced in hospitals and the RG Kar Medical College officials who were in question have been transferred, the health officials told the doctors.