The junior doctors rejoined their duties in essential and emergency services at all state-run hospitals but not in the outpatient department (OPD)

Junior doctors at RG Kar Hospital ended their 42-day strike, resuming essential services after a march to the CBI. Thousands joined a rally demanding justice for their murdered colleague, emphasizing ongoing commitment to public health despite partial resumption of duties.

Thousands of people from all sections of society took part in a torch rally from Highland Park in the southern fringes of the city on Friday, demanding justice for the trainee woman doctor who was raped and murdered in state-run RG Kar hospital last month.

The march marked the end of the junior doctors’ sit-in protest in front of Swasthya Bhavan against the August 9 rape and murder of a 31-year-old postgraduate trainee at RG Kar Medical College and Hosp

Junior doctors ended their 42-day agitation over the RG Kar hospital incident, resuming essential services from Saturday. They held a march demanding a speedy CBI probe into the rape and murder case of a young doctor.

KOLKATA: Junior doctors on Saturday morning rejoined their duties partially at various government-run hospitals in West Bengal after a hiatus of 42 days. They were on 'cease work' agitation in protest against the rape and murder of an on-duty woman doctor at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital.

The agitating doctors said that they would wait for another seven days for the administration to fulfill their demands for justice for the deceased doctor and the removal of state health secretary or else they would start another round of 'cease work'.

The West Bengal Junior Doctors Front plans a rally from Swasthya Bhawan to CGO complex, prioritizing justice for Abhaya.