Junior doctors protesting the August 9 RG Kar hospital rape-murder plan to continue their agitation until at least 5pm Tuesday, which is the Supreme Court’s deadline for them to resume work or face potential consequences. They will make further decisions based on “the ground situation and the state’s actions.”
Doctors’ associations have expressed their disappointment with the Supreme Court’s stance.
The general body meeting of the West Bengal Junior Doctors’ Front has been postponed, delaying a decision on whether to end the strike or defy the Supreme Court’s directive. Doctors’ groups are observing the situation with growing unease.
The Indian Medical Association (West Bengal) has criticized the portrayal of junior doctors as responsible for deaths, calling the claim “shocking” and “totally false,” asserting that the protest has not disrupted hospital services.
