Junior doctors in Bengal have ended their strike after a discussion with Mamata Banerjee on Monday.
Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee has assured the doctors that the state would look into it that attacks on doctors in hospitals never happen again. If such an incident occurs, then strict action will be taken.
In total, 30 junior doctors from Bengal's state hospitals met the chief minister in Nabanna around 3 pm.
'We are satisfied with the meeting,' a representative of the doctors said, assuring Mamata that the strike will be called off.
An announcement on the withdrawal of the strike is likely to be made at NRS Medical College and Hospital.
The strike started in NRS Hospital last Tuesday after two junior doctors were attacked allegedly by the family of a septuagenarian patient who died in the hospital.
After the doctors in NRS started the strike, other junior doctors' associations across the country also struck work to show solidarity.
At one point the doctors' impasse seemed difficult to break after the Bengal chief minister gave the doctors a four-hour ultimatum to join work or leave the hostels.
After that, senior doctors started resigning en masse in various medical college hospitals as a protest.
The doctors today presented 12 demands on which each was supposedly discussed in detail. Among these points were the demand for better and more pro-active police security for doctors in hospitals.
The junior doctors reportedly told the chief minister that the security personnel present in the hospital were ineffective last Monday, when two of their colleagues were beaten up.
They also highlighted that political leaders make a ruckus in hospitals and pressure doctors making it difficult for them to work.
When doctors spoke about zero tolerance on attacks on them, the chief minister said they should not play with the law. She said some unpleasant incidents happen and then snowball into bigger problems. Sensitivity is required to understand the needs of citizens, Mamata is believed to have told he doctors.
