RG Kar rape and muder issue: Junior doctors hold press conference outside Swasthya Bhawan

• We are hurt that the administration has failed to respect the sentiments of the female doctors who have been at the forefront of the movement and refused to address their security concerns
  
• The representative team of junior doctors should have 30 members and be streamed live for transparency. We have not received any response yet
  
• Calcutta Police Commissioner and Deputy Commissioner of Police (North) be removed. Enhance the security measure and end of threat culture
  
• Sandip Ghosh and others involved in the destruction of evidence be suspended and punished
  
• In the mail to the CM, the junior doctors wrote: we came to know you were willing to meet us but the mail made no such mention. We want the CBI and SC to expedite the process and punish the culprits
  
• In the reply sent to the Health secretary NS Nigam, the junior doctors wrote their demands, DME, DHS and principal secretary to resign. We agreed to meet if a proposal came from the deciding authorities
  
• In the meeting called by the health department to negotiate with the junior doctors at the state secretariat on Monday evening, there was no mention of the chief minister being present. At 3.55 am we wrote to the Chief Minister
  
• Agitating junior doctors in West Bengal on Wednesday sent an email to Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, seeking an appointment to discuss the ongoing impasse arising out of the alleged rape and murder of an on-duty medic at a state-run hospital here last month. In their mail, the medics mentioned that they were open for a meeting 'anytime and anywhere', provided that the entire discussion must be streamed live, a doctor said
  
• The Supreme Court had directed the junior doctors to resume duties from Monday 5 pm. They refused to call off the movement till the Commissioner of Police, and health department officials be sacked
  
• The sit-in demonstration of the junior doctors has been on for 23 hours
  
• West Bengal Junior Doctors' Front thanks the artists women, rickshawpullers and every section of the people for lending support to their movement
  
• Junior doctors sitting outside Swasthya Bhawan thank the common people of Bengal for their support to the movement
  
• Our five point demand, we would expect you to spread it further
  
• Some postgraduate trainees on August 9 had refused to allow the body to be released without the videography of the post mortem. That is where the movement started from
  

Agitating junior doctors have sought a meeting with Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee to discuss their demands and resolve the impasse. Protesting doctors on Tuesday had rejected West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee's invitation for talks, vowing to continue their protest and cease work in response to the brutal rape and murder of a trainee doctor at Calcutta’s RG Kar Medical College a month ago.

Banerjee had invited the junior doctors for a meeting at the state secretariat on to address the issue. State finance minister Chandrima Bhattacharya said the chief minister was waiting, but a protesting doctor called the email an “insult,” citing their demand for Nigam’s resignation and the limit on representation.

The Supreme Court on Monday directed doctors on strike to resume work today at 5 pm, assuring them that they would not face any adverse actions, including punitive transfers. However, they also warned that if doctors did not return to work, they could not be held responsible for any actions taken against them. The Trinamul Congress also hailed the court's judgement.

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