Protesting doctors win, Mamata agrees to live media coverage


Kolkata, Jun 17 (IANS): A delegation of 30 doctors will be at Nobanno to meet the West Bengal Chief Minister after protesting medicos stuck to their demand and agreed to meet Mamata Banerjee on Monday only after the official confirmation of live media coverage of the discussion.

The meeting, slated to originally at 3 p.m., would be delayed for some time as the government conceded the young medicos' demand for live media coverage of the meeting at the last moment.

The letter from Director, Medical Education, P.K. Mitra said the Chief Minister has agreed to meet two representatives from each medical college at the Secretariat Nabanna.

"The discussion will focus on all your demands. I also confirm that discussion and resolutions taken in this meeting shall be recorded, and duly communicated to you," the letter said.

Prior to the government climb down, the doctors had stuck to their point that they will reach the state Secretariat Nabanna once they get an official confirmation of live media coverage of the meeting.

The state government had sent a formal letter of invitation to the striking junior doctors to meet, urging them to reach the Chief Minister's Office at Nabanno by 2.30 p.m.

"We have received a formal invitation for our meeting with the Chief Minister but the letter did not mention anything about media coverage.

"We will only move to the State Secretariat once we get an official confirmation of the same," a representative of the protesting doctors at NRS had told reporters earlier.

He said that the agitating doctors have agreed to all the points suggested in the letter and the live media coverage is 'a very simple demand to maintain transparency'.

  

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  • SmR, Karkala

    Mon, Jun 17 2019

    This strike has become a full-fledged Sanghi show with tacit support from the PMO of India . We know this game now. This save Bengal is just the beginning of more sinister shows. Sad that the junior docs have become ready pawns in this dirty politics.

    I don't support any kind of Mob Violence, Doctors deserve safety and protection. But the way BJP leaders and Sanghi trolls have communalized Bengal doctor issue and AIMA went on strike, It is important to expose their hypocrisy.

    news report by Medical Dialogue website reported in April this year that the BJP-ruled Tripura had witnessed as many as nine incidents of attacks on the state’s doctors but neither the medical fraternity raised its voice against those incidents nor did the BJP-led government take tangible action against the culprits.

    More recently, a video of BJP MP Ananth Kumar Hegde punching a doctor at a hospital in his home state Karnataka had gone viral. A report by news agency ANI had said that three doctors Dr. Madhukeshwara Jeevi, Dr. Balachandra, and Dr. Rahul Marshakar, were attacked by Hegde for not taking proper care of his mother after she was admitted to the hospital. Once again the IMA did not care to react or announce a nationwide strike against the BJP MP’s criminal action.

    Is it the glaring hypocrisy of the Indian Medical Association, an umbrella body for the country’s doctors.
    Jai Hind

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  • ca girishkk, m'lore/dxb

    Mon, Jun 17 2019

    It is proved that... Didhi is kind hearted than Doctors....(Sharks)...,

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  • divya, Bondel

    Mon, Jun 17 2019

    Kind hearted took 6 days. only six days.

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