‘Willing to have discussion’: Doctors on Mamata Banerjee’s ‘last attempt’ to resolve crisis | India News – Times of India

NEW DELHI: Junior doctors wrote to chief minister Mamata Banerjee saying that they were willing to have discussion in order to end the impasse between the protesting medical professionals and the Bengal government. The Bengal CM is set to hold meeting at 6pm on Saturday at her residence. Post Banerjee’s visit to the protest site…

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‘Untrue and incendiary’: Doctors’ body slams TMC MP Abhishek Banerjee for calling youth’s death consequence of doctors’ protest – Times of India

NEW DELHI: West Bengal Joint Platform of Doctors on Monday wrote a letter to TMC MP Abhishek Banerjee and demanded an unconditional apology for ‘untrue and incendiary statement on social media’. The letter was in response to Banerjee’s claim that a youth died in Kolkata’s RG Kar Medical College and Hospital as a consequence of…

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SC has taken suo motu cognizance of Kolkata rape-murder case: What does this mean and what impact it could have | India News – Times of India

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court of India has taken suo motu cognizance of the tragic rape and murder of a postgraduate trainee doctor in Kolkata, which occurred on August 9. The action signifies that the court is initiating legal proceedings on its own accord, without a formal petition being filed. Taking suo motu cognizance allows…

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Women take to streets across cities on Independence Day eve, make themselves heard | India News – Times of India

Reclaim the night‘, the protest call, became a mass movement across India on Independence Day eve on Wednesday as it reverberated in numerous cities as doctors, other professionals and general public gathered to raise their voice against the rape and murder of the on-duty 31-year-old PGT doctor inside RG Kar Medical College and Hospital (RGKMCH)…

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‘Same treatment as Kolkata doctor’: Drunk patient threatens Bengal hospital doctor | India News – Times of India

NEW DELHI: Medical professionals at a government hospital in West Bengal‘s Purba Bardhaman district protested against a patient who allegedly threatened a female doctor on Saturday with consequences similar to those faced by a trainee medic in a Kolkata hospital if his treatment was delayed. The patient, who was reportedly intoxicated, entered the emergency ward…

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