West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee Agrees To Live Coverage Of Meeting With Protesting Docs
Mumbai: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday approved the live coverage of the proposed meeting with agitating junior doctors.
A state government official said, “The Chief Minister has agreed on the demand for live coverage of the meeting.”
Earlier on Sunday, doctors, who had gone on strike last week, had demanded media coverage of their meeting with the Chief Minister, which the state government had turned down.
The meeting will be held in Howrah in an adjoining auditorium adjacent to the State Secretariat.
Opposing the brutal assault on two junior doctors by NRS medical college from members of a dead patient family on Monday night, doctors of West Bengal stopped work in outpatient departments (OPDs) in most of the state’s government hospitals.
We are keen to end this deadlock. We are ready to talk with the Chief Minister at the venue of her choice, provided it is in the presence of media persons in the open and not behind closed doors, “a spokesman of the Joint Forum of junior Doctors told reporters. After two and a half hours meeting of the body.
The spokesperson had earlier said that this place should be large enough to accommodate the representatives of all medical colleges and hospitals in the state.
