Kolkata: Junior doctors call off week long strike
DTMT Network
KOLKATA : After assurances from West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee, the agitating junior doctors in Kolkata called off their week-long strike.
After meeting with the Chief Minister, the agitating doctors said that they are satisfied and reassured. The outcome of the movement will be decided once the doctors go back to the NRS Medical College and Hospital.
Earlier, the chief minister promised amendments in the clinical establishment act. The amendments are likely to be tabled in the coming session of the state assembly.
The demand proposed by the junior doctors of setting grievance redressal units in all of the West Bengal hospitals have also been accepted.
The junior doctors are demanding safe working conditions and action against the those behind the violence.