95 doctors resign at RG Kar hospital, seek unconditional apology from CM

Their resignation comes after 18 senior medics from Sagar Dutta Hospital quit on Thursday, following the NRS principal and superintendent. Many medics have also quit from North Bengal Medical College and Hospital.

The striking medics demanded unconditional apology from the chief minister for her threat to the medics at SSKM either to join the duty within four hours (deadline ended at 2pm on Thursday) or face punitive action, if necessary invocation of ESMA, and eviction from hostels.

The medics at RG Kar, in a joint statement, said the list of resignation would rise unless the CM offered unconditional apology.

The health system has virtually collapsed in all the government-run OPDs since Tuesday following strike by the junior medics at NRS Hospital first to protest assault on two doctors by outsiders with help of a patient party, and thereafter chain of reaction.

Meanwhile, Doctors Forum, an umbrella organisation expressed solidarity with their juniors and joined the protest march in protest against assault on the medics and alleged government inaction against the perpetrators.

Intellectuals and artists such as Aparna Sen, Kaushik Sen and others joined the students at the NRS and appealed to the CM to visit the hospital at Sealdah.