Blitz Bureau
KOLKATA: Over 100 senior doctors including senior faculty members resigned from two prime medical colleges and hospitals in West Bengal on October 9.
They were expressing solidarity with their junior colleagues protesting and holding a fast-unto-death against the rape and murder of a junior doctor in August.
The senior doctors who quit en masse are from Calcutta Medical College & Hospital in Kolkata and the North Bengal Medical College and Hospital at Siliguri in Darjeeling district.
At Calcutta Medical, a total of 70 senior doctors, including senior faculty members, resigned.
Senior doctors at Midnapore Medical College & Hospital in West Midnapore district are already prepared to tender mass resignations later in the day.
On October 8 as many as 50 senior doctors at R.G. Kar Hospital, including representatives from the faculty there, tendered their resignations.
