After days of impasse, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee-led West Bengal authorities on Monday accepted a lot of the calls for put ahead by the protesting medical doctors, demanding justice for the RG Kar rape and homicide sufferer. The Chieh Minister additionally requested the medics to finish their agitation, however they stated they’d proceed their ‘stop work’ protest on Tuesday and anticipate the Supreme Court docket listening to on the Kolkata rape and homicide case.
Following a gathering with the agitating medical doctors, the Trinamool supremo claimed that talks had been “fruitful” and almost “99 per cent of their calls for have been accepted.”
What Mamata Govt Agreed To?
As per the calls for of protestors, Kolkata Police Commissioner Vineet Goyal–who allegedly supplied cash to the dad and mom of the RG Kar victim–, the Director of Medical Schooling (DME) and the Director of Well being Companies (DHS) could be eliminated and the title of the brand new Kolkata police commissioner might be introduced after 4 PM on Tuesday, Banerjee advised reporters after the assembly held at her residence to resolve the RG Kar deadlock.
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“Kolkata Police Commissioner Vineet Goyal and Deputy Commissioner of the North Division Abhishek Gupta might be transferred. The medical doctors had claimed that Goyal had earlier advised them that he needed to step down as a result of that they had misplaced religion in him. We now have accommodated his request and transferred him to a place he had requested for…We are going to announce the title of the brand new police commissioner after 4 pm on Tuesday after the scheduled listening to in Supreme Court docket will get over,” Banerjee advised reporters at her Kalighat residence.
“No punitive motion might be taken in opposition to the medical doctors… We now have accepted nearly all calls for of the medical doctors. Holding in thoughts the plight of the widespread folks, we did the very best we might. I now enchantment to the medical doctors to return to work,” she added.
The choices had been formalised within the minutes of the assembly which was signed by Chief Secretary Manoj Pant and countersigned by the delegation of 42 medical doctors who participated within the talks to finish the RG Kar hospital impasse.
The agitating medical doctors are on ‘stop work’ throughout the state for 38 days for the reason that ugly alleged rape and homicide of the postgraduate intern at RG Kar hospital got here to mild on August 9, crippling state-run healthcare supply.
Are Docs Ending Protest?
Deeming the choices as “the state bowing its head earlier than the stress of a motion and a “victory of the lots”, the medical doctors, nonetheless, stated they’d proceed their protests until “the phrases get transformed into concrete motion”.
“We are going to resolve on what our subsequent step could be after the listening to on the Apex court docket and after we verify the federal government issuing these switch orders it has promised,” introduced Dr Debasish Halder, one of many leaders, from the sit-in earlier than Swasthya Bhawan which is continuous for per week amid inclement climate.
“Whereas the CM has accepted our demand to take away the CP, DC (North), the DHS and DME, she is but to agree on eradicating the principal secretary of the well being division or the DC (Central). The discussions on the working risk syndicate in hospitals and the thriving corruption racket stay incomplete. We solely have verbal assurances on these issues thus far. So our combat is way from over,” added Dr Aniket Mahato, one other chief.
Different Calls for Met By TMC Govt
The signed minutes of the assembly documented a sanction of Rs 100 crore for infrastructure growth in hospitals for medical doctors and rebuilding of affected person welfare committees as extra inclusive with stakeholders.
To sort out safety-security measures in hospitals, a particular process power headed by the chief secretary and having as members the house secretary, DGP, CP Kolkata and representatives of junior medical doctors, the minutes acknowledged.
It additionally documented the establishing of an “efficient and responsive grievance redressal mechanism” in medical infrastructure throughout hospitals and faculties of the state.