Odisha Medicos ‘Rally’ For Agitating Bengal Doctors

Cuttack: While the protests against the attack on two doctors at NRS Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata have spread to the other states, including Maharashtra and Uttar Pradesh, the medicos in Odisha have also extended their solidarity to the agitating doctors.

Condemning the attack, the students of the SCB Medical College and Hospital and the members of the Odisha Medical Services Association (OMSA) took out a protest rally in the city here on Thursday night.

Shouting the slogan “We want justice”, the agitating students went on a rally from the office of the principal and demonstrated at the main gate of the hospital where they burnt the effigy of West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee.

In Bhubaneswar, more than 500 junior doctors of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) went on an indefinite strike on Friday in support of the agitating doctors in Kolkata.

Due to the strike, health services in the outpatient department (OPD) have been hampered. However, the emergency healthcare in the institute has not been affected, reports said.

Doctors across West Bengal are protesting against an attack on two of their colleagues at NRS Medical College and Hospital in the city by family members of a patient, who died on the night of June 10.

Health services have been affected over the past three days in emergency wards, outdoor facilities and pathological units of many state-run medical colleges and hospitals and a large number of private medical facilities in the state.

Meanwhile, the principal and the medical superintendent of the state-run NRS Medical College and Hospital submitted their resignations last night.