More than 250 junior doctors, interns, and four batches of MBBS students at the College of Medicine & JNM Hospital in Kalyani continued with their indefinite demonstration on Sunday to demand “adequate security arrangements” inside their campus in the wake of “security threats”.

Their decision to continue the demonstration which began on Saturday — after an auditorium was vandalised — was taken following talks on Sunday with a team of officials from the West Bengal University of Health Sciences.

Sources confirmed that the talks did not seem to go well for either party.

A team of six officials of the WBUHS visited the campus and spoke to the agitating students, but “failed to offer any constructive solution”, said the protesters .

Salman Halder, a final-year MBBS student and the students’ union secretary, said: “We categorically demanded renewed security measures inside the hospital and the academic campus, which includes our hostel.

The entire premises is unguarded without closed gates. Moreover, we demanded closed-circuit cameras and again asked for a police outpost, a longstanding demand to ensure proper surveillance of the vast campus. The officials gave us a patient hearing, but no concrete assurance or decision.”

“The meeting turned out to be useless. We expected the registrar to come and meet us. Unfortunately he did not bother. So we decided to continue with the agitation. We will wait for a few more days… and suspend all services at the hospital and classes too unless the problems are resolved,” the student union leader said.

The students demanded that repair of the vandalised auditorium be completed within one month citing that the structure was largely used for academic purposes. Sources said no assurances were given on the matter.

Asked, varsity officials refused to comment on the issues before mediapersons.

However, a member of the team, on condition of anonymity, said: “We visited the campus to see the situation. We understand the demands of students are genuine. But, we can’t offer any instant solution. We told the students that their demands and grievances would be conveyed to the higher authorities for a solution, but they appeared unconvinced.”

Medical superintendent Avijit Mukherjee said: “I apprised higher authorities of the students’ demands, which are genuine. A team of officials interacted with students for a solution on Sunday.”

Agitating students called the assurances an “eyewash”.

One student said: “Everytime a security threat occurs, officials offer verbal assurances. But this time we won’t buy such dry assurances.”

On Friday night, unidentified goons had sneaked inside the medical college and ransacked an auditorium, damaged its ceiling, acoustics system and had vandalised adjacent washrooms and severed cables. The campus has round-the-clock surveillance by three security agencies.