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Kolkata, September 25 (HS). Junior doctors have resolved to continue their agitation even during Sharadiya Utsav. They have also prepared plans in this regard. On Tuesday, a General Body (GB) meeting of junior doctors was held, in which they drafted two to three phases for their agitation. A junior doctor who was present in that meeting said on Wednesday that the first phase will be on Friday, September 27. After this, the aim is to give this agitation an even bigger form as soon as Durga Puja begins in October. The main demand of the doctors is to get justice for the victim. Along with this, they are also demanding to uproot the 'threat culture' from the health sector.
On Friday, junior doctors will hold a citizens' convention at Dhandhanya Auditorium in south Kolkata. However, they do not want to make the detailed plan of their agitation public yet. Still, they have indicated that they want to spread it across Bengal. The doctors leading the agitation have said that this movement is not of any particular person but of the public. They said that this movement has social support, and they want to keep it going and also be a part of other social movements.
After a meeting with the Chief Secretary at Navanna last Thursday, the junior doctors had announced that their sit-in protest in front of the Health Building would end on Friday. But they had also made it clear that the agitation would continue. The GB meeting also agreed to continue the agitation and chalked out the next phase. In the first phase, their focus was on the state government, but now the agitators want to draw the attention of the Centre and the CBI as well.
There is a proposal to add demands number four and five to the junior doctors' demands. The fourth demand is to improve the health infrastructure, for which the state's Chief Secretary Manoj Pant has sent 10 instructions to Health Secretary Narayan Swaroop Nigam. The doctors have demanded immediate implementation of these instructions. Their first demand is to provide justice to the victim, and along with this they are demanding an end to the 'intimidation culture', which according to them is prevalent in government hospitals.
On Wednesday, 12 people were summoned for a hearing at R.G. Kar Medical College, while outside, student doctors were raising slogans against the accused persons. Last week, a 'relay torch march' was organised by the civil society from Highland Park, which culminated in Shyambazar at night. In this march, a picture of a girl went viral on social media, in which her white T-shirt showed blood oozing from one eye and below it was written, 'Iss Bar Ki Har Pratima, Tilottama Tilottama'. With this message, the junior doctors have decided to make their movement more effective during the upcoming Durga Puja.
Discussion about this movement has already started on social media, where people are writing, 'Festival of protest… coming soon'.
