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Videograb of Aniket Mahato being taken to hospital/ courtesy Videograb from Facebook

RG Kar: Protesting junior doctor Aniket Mahato hospitalised after his health deteriorates amid hunger strike

| @indiablooms | Oct 11, 2024, at 06:43 am

Kolkata/IBNS: One of the agitating junior doctors "fasting unto death" was on Thursday night taken to RG Kar Hospital's Intensive Care Unit after he fell sick at the site of the hunger strike at Kolkata's downtown Esplanade.

According to local TV reports, Mahato's pulse rate spiked and he was seen sweating when other fellow doctors decided to take him to RG Kar Hospital.

He is under treatment at the hospital, media reports said. He might be shifted to the Critical Care Unit if his health status demands so.

As per latest reports, there in no immediate threat to his health.

The junior doctors, agitating over the rape and murder of their colleague at the RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, are fasting unto death for the fifth day amid the Durga Puja celebrations across West Bengal.

The junior doctors on Wednesday met the West Bengal government's Chief Secretary Manoj Pant with their demands including the resignation of Health Secretary NS Nigam, elimination of threat culture, installation of CCTV cameras in hospitals, providing of safety and security.

After the meeting, the junior doctors said, "We got nothing concrete from the meeting. We have been asked to wait for the pujo to be over. The government will think over the demands in the third week of October when the festival will be over."

The protests escalated largely on Tuesday after about 50 senior doctors at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital submitted a symbolic mass resignation in solidarity with their juniors.

As the mass resignation is symbolic, the senior doctors haven't stopped attending patients as of now.

Nabanna, the state secretariat, has reportedly claimed it didn't receive any resignation letter from the senior doctors.

The junior doctors launched their hunger strike on Saturday night after the state government failed to meet their 24-hour deadline for addressing their demands, which expired at 8:30 pm that evening.

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