KOLKATA: Following the death of a lady during childbirth at a government hospital in Bengal’s West Midnapore district, allegedly after administration of intravenous fluid Ringer’s lactate, Calcutta high court on Thursday questioned the Bengal health department, asking it why it had not taken any step to withdraw existing stocks of Ringer’s lactate made by Paschim…
NEW DELHI: CBI Tuesday informed SC that a request for sanction to prosecute Sandip Ghosh, former principal of R G Kar Medical College & Hospital, and Dr Ashish Kumar Pandey, is pending with Bengal governmentt since November 27, though the chargesheet against them was filed two days later.For CBI, SG Tushar Mehta submitted the probe…
NEW DELHI: West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee urged the junior doctors on Saturday to withdraw their fast unto death. She asserted that everyone has the right to protest but it should not affect healthcare services. Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee interacted with the agitating doctors over the phone when state chief secretary Manoj Pant and…
NEW DELHI: West Bengal governor on Wednesday alleged the state government led by CM Mamata Banerjee of ‘failing’ to carry out its duties in the RG Kar incident and urged the state to own up for its fallout. The governor, who has often been at loggerheads with Banerjee also took a veiled dig at the…
NEW DELHI: 50 Senior faculty members of RG Kar Medical College on Tuesday tendered resignations in support of the protesting junior doctors.The decision to resign en masse was taken at a meeting of the heads of various departments of the state-run hospital on Tuesday morning, they said.“This has been decided at today’s meeting of the…
NEW DELHI: Protesting junior doctors in Kolkata began fast unto death on Saturday as they said that their demands were not fulfilled by the Mamata Bengree-led West Bengal government.The doctors had called off their “total cease work” on Friday with a 24-hour ultimatum to the state government to fulfill their demands.“Like we said yesterday, we…
NEW DELHI: Protesting junior doctors in Kolkata called off their “total cease work” on Friday and resumed their service while also issuing a 24-hour ultimatum to the Mamata Banerjee government to meet their demands or else they would launch an indefinite hunger strike.The doctors had called for “total cease work” demanding better safety and security…
Members of Bengal Junior Doctors’ Front and others take part in a mega rally on ‘Mahalaya’ to demand justice for the alleged sexual assault and murder of a trainee doctor at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, in Kolkata (Pic credit: PTI) NEW DELHI: A protest march was organised by the Bengal Junior Doctors’ Front…
West Bengal governor CV Ananda Bose, on Thursday, said that he will socially boycott chief minister Mamata Banerjee and will not appear with her at any public events in view of people’s outcry over the RG Kar hospital impasse.“I will not be sharing any public platform with the chief minister. I will take proactive steps…
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Tuesday heard a suo motu case related to the rape and murder of a postgraduate medic at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata that has led to a massive uproar across the nation over women safety at the workplace.The top court pulled up the Mamata Banerjee-led West Bengal…
