Blitz Bureau
KOLKATA: The fast-unto-death protest of seven junior doctors at Esplanade in Kolkata, over the rape and murder of their colleague in the state-run R.G. Kar Medical College Hospital entered the fifth day on October 9 that coincides with the occasion of Maha Shashthi or the sixth day of Navaratri.
On this day of celebration for the people of West Bengal, the protesting juniors will carry out different programmes in support of their demands on the issue.
There will be a blood donation camp on R.G. Kar’s premises in memory of the ghastly rape and murder. The protesting junior doctors will also carry the symbolic statue of the victim, “A woman in pain”, and visit the different Durga Puja pandals from North Kolkata to South Kolkata distributing leaflets containing their 10-point demands on which they are protesting.
Senior doctors of a number of medical colleges and hospitals in Kolkata might announce their decision to tender mass resignations following in the footsteps of their colleagues at R.G. Kar Hospital.
As many as 50 senior doctors of R.G. Kar tendered their mass resignation expressing solidarity towards the movements by their junior colleagues.
Meanwhile, the parents of the victim have been holding a sit-in demonstration in front of their residence at Panihati in North 24 Parganas district since October 8 and will continue till Saturday.
