The state government on Friday responded to a demand by the junior doctors and emailed to them a "status report" of what it wants to do to improve Bengal's healthcare delivery system.

The mail from the chief secretary included an appeal to the fasting junior doctors to "withdraw from the hunger strike immediately".

According to the report, the government has allocated Rs 113 crore for the installation of over 7,000 CCTV cameras and proper lighting systems, construction of over 893 duty rooms and 778 washrooms, developing alarm systems and introducing a biometric access control in all government medical colleges.

"It is expected the ongoing projects will be completed by October 15," the report says.

The status report "on various initiatives and intervention in healthcare services delivery system in the state" was released on Friday evening, hours after one of the doctors on hunger strike, Aniket Mahata, had to be admitted to the critical care unit of RG Kar Medical College and Hospital.

Chief secretary Manoj Pant mailed the report to the West Bengal Junior Doctors' Front.

The report said over 90 per cent of the sanctioned projects were near completion, except at RG Kar where the necessary no-objection certificate from the CBI arrived "only two days back".

"The report does not mention a word about removing N.S. Nigam from the post of health secretary,” said a junior doctor. "We will hold a meeting and discuss the report before expressing our opinion."