Mamata Banerjee to protesting doctors: There is a government, there is a system. Understand it

• The meeting concludes.
• It is almost two hours now. I have discussed for two hours with you. Only you have spoken. Even principals have not spoken: CM Mamata
  
• If there is a complaint of ragging, will it be addressed by anti-ragging committee or the college level task force?: asks a junior doctor
  
• We will send the directive tomorrow: CM Mamata
  
• You did not participate in stakeholders committee. It is your mistake: Chief secretary
  
• Of the five committees that will be constituted junior doctors want written directives from the government
  
• Hundred per cent demands cannot be fulfilled, 99 per cent of your demands have been met: CM
  
• Junior doctors want an interim resident doctors' association till elections are completed
  
• Narayan complete the work that we have committed to the Supreme Court: CM instructs health secretary
  
• We can see work has not been done on the ground: junior doctors
  
• Can government mislead court? Do you believe it? CM Mamata
• Junior doctors and students are not same: a junior doctor informs the CM
  
• We have returned to work: junior doctors
  
• Committees will be formed only when normalcy is restored: CM Mamata
  
• You don't agree with many of our points, we don't agree with many of your views like on threat culture. We have to come to a common ground: Debashish Haldar
  
• Three representatives from the government and ten from your side. where is the balance?: CM Mamata
  
• The other side also wants to meet me. I have not heard them yet: CM
  
• Names of those expelled by principals and superintendents be sent to the task force. They will inquire each and every case and recommend action: CM
  
• What happened in the campus that a normal student turned into a criminal?: Mahato
  
• Those in RG Kar and Sagar Dutta and North Bengal medical colleges are notorious criminals: Mahato
  
• We want transparency in medical exams: Mahato
  
• I am taking hourly report of the junior doctors on hunger strike. Come to me ten times but please call off the hunger strike and resume your studies and duties. You will suffer: CM
  
• Interim arrangement will require some time. I cannot take a decision right now: CM Mamata
  
• Government is very transparent. 563 doctors went to private hospitals and took money under Swasthya Saathi while strike was on. Is it not a crime? Over 400 crore went to private hospitals because of the strike: CM
  
• I have suspended two members from the West Bengal Medical Council: CM
  
• You have the right to submit grievances, we have the right to scrutinise: CM
  
• Take a representative from junior doctors and grievance cell for medical colleges and district hospitals: CM
  
• My appeal for calling off the hunger strike is pending: CM
  
• Heated exchange between junior doctors and the chief minister on suspension of students at RG Kar
  
• Chief secretary has to ensure that examinations should be transparent: CM Mamata
  
• Some decisions are technical, we need to talk about it: CM Mamata
  
• Should we stand for criminals and rapists: Aniket Mahato
  
• Don't tell me about college council. We don't know who formed them? Shouldn't they have informed us? You cannot take decisions, There is a government, there is a system. Understand it: CM Mamata Banerjee
  
• Primary health centres are in pathetic condition. Central funds are not available. From 58,000 beds we have taken to over a lakh. People want specialty treatment. Quality of healthcare Bengal is the number one among all the states. As a child when I went to the hospitals, the gates were so small ambulances could not pass. Institutional deliveries is now over 99 per cent: CM
  
• Many principals and MSVPs are not doing their duties. They are playing a political role. We have information. Chair is not permanent. I have not created the rules. I can't make any one Chief secretariat. I have to submit a panel. In case of principals we have to follow a procedure. All principals have not been appointed on our views. North Bengal principal and mayor were gheraoed and forced to resign. Is it not threat culture? When we came to power there were only 4,000 doctors. now we have 17, 000 doctors. Only 11-12 medical colleges existed now it is around 35. 43 multi-super specialty hospitals created. HDU, ICCU were rare in government hospitals. NICU were only six, now we have around 600: CM
  
• Doctors have to take responsibility. Doctors are the ones who refer: CM Mamata Banerjee
  
• Doctors responsible for treatment should not be used for filling up forms: Naiya
  
• Regarding the central referral system, the pilot project of which is being launched from South 24-Parganas, send in your suggestions we will incorporate them and make it a more robust system: Chief secretary
  
• We are also committed to fulfill vacancies. Not possible to exclude the OBC category, piecemeal recruitment not possible. We will follow the due procedure and in a transparent manner fulfil the vacancies. We do not want any short cut: Chief secretary
  
• Since CM has already given instructions we are working on it. Principals and MSVPs should send the SoPs and we can cross check: Chief secretariat (CM intervenes, many have created their own committees we know nothing about).
  
• We have had several discussions with WBJDF representatives. Safe and secure environment we are also trying for it. We have taken several steps. I do no want to go into the details here. State level task force, state level grievance cell created, email id created and made public. Last Saturday when different issues were raised in the telephonic conversation, most of the issues were covered. You wanted a meeting. By March 2025 the election process to be completed. Keeping your exams in mind, we set the date. Once the elections are completed, you will get representation in the committees: Chief secretary
  
• Chief secretary to reply to the points. I have not interfered: CM Mamata Banerjee
  
• WBJDF is not into any politics: Nanda
  
• We are speaking against threat culture because we want a safe environment for the students and services for the patients, the interpersonal relations between doctors and patients and students and teachers. In the last few years, if we see, some people have misused their powers and threatened others with cancelling their registration. If they still remain in their posts in recruitment board that creates room for doubt: Kinjal Nanda
  
• We must trust each other. Give the document to the chief secretary, if you read a court order, I will quote another: CM Mamata Banerjee
  
• We don't want a campus where outsiders can barge in with lathis: Aniket Mahato
  
• If those suspended can lock a principal's room and demand the suspension be revoked, what security can we expect for our female colleagues: Mahato
  
• Aniket Mahato: I am a third year postgraduate trainee at the RG Kar Medical College and Hospital. I had no idea about the criminalisation at the college premise. Molestations, extortion, harassment. The students have been through an ordeal in the last three years. The girl-students do not even have a place where they can be heard. That is why we have been on the streets for the last 70 days.
  
• Kinjal Nanda, RG Kar Medical College and Hospital: We have been speaking against threat culture. Diamond Harbour college principal's room was locked. Those involved in the August 14 incident were released
  
• This is a fresh demand: CM
  
• Aqeeb Ashraf, Calcutta National Medical College and Hospital, asks for vacancies to be filled up at all levels- doctors, nurses and group-D staff. If this shortage continues for a prolonged period, it will have an adverse impact on the delivery of healthcare system
  
• Resident Doctors' Association should be statutory and elections should be held annually: Bera
  
• We want the elections to be held soon so that the elected members can be made members of different committees. We have seen against whom we had complaints were members of the committees: Bera
  
• We have given everything to CBI within 24-hours: CM Mamata Banerjee
  
• Himadri Sekhar Bera from School of Tropical Medicine: Justice for the victim, we know CBI is probing, we want the government to take a proactive stand.
  
• Medical council needs to be accountable and free from corrupt people. Inquiries should be made against those involved in corruption and disciplinary proceedings be made against them: Haldar
  
• Residents Doctors Association be made statutory bodies: WBJDF demands
  
• Threat culture: state level grievance redressal cell needs adequate representation. We are the victims of threat culture: Debashish Haldar
  
• Recruitment of security staff has been stopped much before the matter went to court: Haldar
  
• Don't take names. Then I will also have to take names. Everyone has complaints against everyone else: CM
  
• We do not want an Aveek or Birupaksha to rise in the future: Haldar
  
• The college level committee should be elected not selected. Elections are not happening now. Whenever the students union elections take place, an interim committee be set up. The RG Kar rape and murder happened over a systemic failure. People like Sandip Ghosh were selected not elected: Haldar
  
• A government directive on college level monitoring committee with elected representatives from the medical college unions: Haldar
  
• We demand a written directive on the state task force, its terms of reference: Haldar
  
• There should be a monthly meeting of the state task force, we get a monthly status report: Debashish Haldar
  
• The meeting is being live streamed from the state secretariat that the junior doctors have been demanding from the beginning
  
• Demand for a central referral system and electronic display of bed, pilot project on, what we can suggest. A state task force was supposed to be set up as decided in a previous meeting. State task force SOP, terms of reference, responsibilities, 5-7 representatives from us would not be enough, adequate representation be included. If the state task force works on SOP, we can give our input: Debashish Haldar, WBJDF
  
• When chief secretary and home secretary went to meet us... we have no fresh demands. We have streamlined these. We had sent an email in response to an email from the government: Debashish Haldar
  
• I hope you won't increase the number of demands, CM tells representatives of West Bengal Junior Doctors Front
• Those on hunger strike are not doing well: says a junior doctor

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