PBT president Kunal Saha urges Union Health Minister to take action against NRS protesters
Kolkata, Jun 15 (IBNS): A day after the top court held that doctors must not go on a strike, People for Better Treatment (PBT) president Dr. Kunal Saha has appealed to Union Health Minister Dr. Harsh Vardhan to take action against the NRS junior doctors.
Saha wrote in a letter to Harsh Vardhan, "As the Hon’ble Apex Court has directed, we are submitting this urgent representation with your office to request you to take imminent measures to stop this unlawful doctors’ strike as proposed by the IMA. We also request you to direct the appropriate authority for taking exemplary disciplinary action against the striking doctors for their “misconduct” and willful disregard to the order/judgment passed by the Hon’ble Apex Court failing which we will have no other option but to move the Hon’ble Apex Court for the ends of justice. I thank you in advance for your prompt intervention in this matter."
The junior doctors went for an indefinite strike across West Bengal after relatives of Kolkata's Tangra resident 85-year-old Md. Sayeed, whose death at the NRS Hospital prompted cries of medical negligence from them, brought some 200 people to the hospital and beat up junior doctors, seriously wounding Paribaha Mukhopadhayay on Monday night.
Amid reports that 300 doctors, which include the heads of departments of medical colleges and other hospitals in Kolkata, Burdwan, Darjeeling and North 24 Parganas districts, have resigned from their positions, the ongoing strike of the protesting medical practitioners entered its fifth day on Saturday.
The matter got more complex after Banerjee visited the SSKM Hospital a day ago and lost her cool over the protesters.
Banerjee, amid sloganeering by the agitators, alleged that the protesters are "outsiders". She even sent an ultimatum to the agitators to join work within four hours or else they would face action. However, Banerjee's ultimatum didn't change the situation much.
Doctors from Delhi, Mumbai and other cities have also joined the protest against the assault on Mukhopadhyay.
Going tough with the Mamata Banerjee-led West Bengal government, the Calcutta High Court on Friday asked the ruling dispensation to mediate with the junior doctors protesting against the attack on their mate Paribaha Mukhopadhyay.
The court was hearing a Public Interest Litigation (PIL), which was filed by Dr. Kunal Saha, against the doctors' indefinite strike. Saha sought the strike should be declared illegal.
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