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‘Take medical aid’: Kolkata Police's request to medic observing hunger strike

Dr Aniket Mahato is among the junior doctors who have been on a ‘fast unto death’ since October 5 demanding justice in the RG Kar case.

Kolkata, Oct 10 (ANI): Film director Aparna Sen joins the junior doctors sitting on a hunger strike in protest against the RG Kar rape-murder case, in Kolkata on Wednesday. (ANI Photo)

india news

Published on Oct 10, 2024 10:17 PM IST

ByHT News Desk, New Delhi

RG Kar rape-murder case: Doctors announce nationwide hunger strike on Oct 9

Doctor's association FAIMA has announced a nationwide hunger strike on October 9, demanding justice for the RG Kar case victim.

Junior doctors and others take out a protest march against the alleged sexual assault and murder of a postgraduate trainee doctor of the RG Kar Hospital, in Kolkata on Wednesday. (ANI Photo)
(Saikat Paul )

india news

Published on Oct 07, 2024 11:50 PM IST

PTI |

Streets on the boil: An open situation in West Bengal

The sweep of the protest is unprecedented. CM Banerjee has failed to strike a chord with the grieving colleagues of the doctor and Bengal’s angry citizenry.

Medical professionals and students take part in a protest rally against the rape and murder of a doctor in Kolkata on August 21, 2024 (Photo by DIBYANGSHU SARKAR / AFP)(AFP)

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Published on Sep 09, 2024 06:56 PM IST

ByRanabir Samaddar

Kolkata rape-murder case: Sandip Ghosh's aide detained after ED raid | 10 points

ED sleuths carried out raids on the residences of Sandip Ghosh and three of his associates in connection with alleged financial irregularities.

RG Kar Hospital former principal Sandip Ghosh's close associates Prasun Chatterjee being detained by ED from his residence, at Sonarpur in South 24 Parganas district, Friday, Sept. 6, 2024.(PTI)

india news

Published on Sep 06, 2024 03:56 PM IST

ByHT News Desk

Kolkata rape-murder case: IMA asks protesting doctors to ‘leave justice’ to SC

Kolkata rape-murder case: IMA has said that the entire medical community should trust Supreme Court and adhere to its ruling.

Protesting junior doctors march towards Lalbazar police headquarters after they were allowed to meet Police Commissioner Vineet Goyal on September 3.(PTI)

india news

Published on Sep 04, 2024 05:01 PM IST

ByHT News Desk

Why did Mamata provide CCTV footage to Kolkata doctor's family? CM says…

Kolkata rape-murder case: CM Mamata said that police arrested the main accused within 12 hours, after which she directed them to move to the fast-track court.

West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee speaks after tabling of the Aparajita Woman and Child Bill (West Bengal Criminal Laws and Amendment Bill 2024) during a session of the state Legislative Assembly in Kolkata on Tuesday.(PTI)

india news

Published on Sep 03, 2024 04:19 PM IST

ByHT News Desk

‘Enough is enough’: Full text of President Murmu's statement on Kolkata case

President Droupadi Murmu urged the nation to “wake up” and end crime against women as she issued her first statement on the Kolkata rape-murder case.

President Droupadi Murmu (File Photo)(HT_PRINT)

india news

Published on Aug 28, 2024 06:51 PM IST

ByHT News Desk

Kolkata protest turns violent, cops use force

A protest in Kolkata against a junior doctor's rape and murder turned violent as police clashed with demonstrators.

Police use tear gas on protestors during the Nabanna Abhijan march against the alleged rape and murder of RG Kar Hospital doctor, in Kolkata on Tuesday. (ANI)

india news

Updated on Aug 28, 2024 05:56 AM IST

ByTanmay Chatterjee, Kolkata

‘This is patriarchy’: TMC on calls for CM Mamata Banerjee's resignation

The opposition has been demanding CM Mamata Banerjee's resignation over the rape and murder of a junior doctor in the RG Kar Medical College in Kolkata.

West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee . (ANI file)

india news

Published on Aug 26, 2024 03:13 PM IST

ByHT News Desk

Kolkata rape-murder case: Chaos as mob storms hospital amid night protest

The mob violence, reported after midnight on Thursday, also prompted health care providers and an umbrella body of doctors’ unions to resume a nationwide strike

A nurse breaks down after the violence at RG Kar Hospital in Kolkata. (Samir Jana/HT Photo)

india news

Updated on Aug 16, 2024 01:11 AM IST

ByTanmay Chatterjee, Kolkata

Kolkata rape-murder case: CBI grills hospital doctors, forensic experts

Sanjay Roy (31), a civic volunteer working for the Kolkata police, was arrested on August 10 as the prime suspect

The CBI team from Delhi visited the crime scene on Wednesday afternoon

india news

Published on Aug 15, 2024 08:55 PM IST

ByTanmay Chatterjee

Uttarakhand: Junior doc's suicide at medical college sparks harassment charges

The 26-year-old junior doctor at the Shri Guru Ram Rai Institute of Medical and Health Sciences in Dehradun was found dead inside his hostel room on May 17.

The death of a junior doctor by suicide at a college hostel in Dehradun has triggered a massive uproar in Uttarakhand. (File photo)

india news

Updated on May 23, 2024 07:11 PM IST

ByHT News Desk

Over 12k doctors announce strike across Jharkhand after medico assaulted

Dr. Kamalesh Oraon of the pediatric intensive care unit (PICU), Mahatma Gandhi Memorial Medical College Hospital (MGMMCH), was allegedly beaten following the death of a minor girl during treatment late Monday night.

Over 12,000 government and private doctors have announced an indefinite strike across Jharkhand from 6 am on Friday. (HT Photo)

cities

Published on Sep 21, 2023 09:32 PM IST

ByDebashish Sarkar, Jamshedpur

MP junior doctors' stir: Govt issues hostel eviction notices

The stand-off between some 3,000 junior doctors and the Madhya Pradesh government continued into the sixth day on Saturday with the former refusing to back down despite the High Court calling their stir illegal.

education

Published on Jun 05, 2021 10:00 PM IST

PTI |

Junior doctors in Bihar threaten to boycott work from Aug 27

In a letter to the state’s principal secretary (health),the Junior Doctors Association (JDA), Bihar, claimed that the government, while revising their stipend it on May 9, 2017, had said it would be reviewed every three years.

The junior doctors are at the frontline of the battle against the Covid-19 pandemic.(HT PHOTO)

india news

Published on Aug 22, 2020 02:01 PM IST

Hindustan Times, Patna | ByRuchir Kumar

NMC Bill: Address the concerns of the doctors

Ensure colleges produce skilled doctors, and monitor community health providers.

Medical students shout slogans during a protest against National Medical Commission (NMC) Bill, which they say will result in deterioration of medical studies and services, New Delhi, August 1, 2019.(REUTERS)

editorials

Published on Aug 05, 2019 07:56 AM IST

Hindustan Times | ByHT Correspondent

MGMMCH gears up to win back 50 medical seats

MGMMCH had appointed 31 junior doctors early this month, said Dr Akahuari. He added the appointment of tutors and senior residents, would meet the MCI standard . With Friday’s appointments, MGMMCH now has 44 senior resident doctors against 97 sanctioned posts.

State health secretary Nitin Madan Kulkarni talking to doctors at MGMCH in Jamshedpur (Photo by Manoj Kumar/ Hindustan Times)

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Published on Jun 24, 2019 03:34 PM IST

Hindustan Times, Jamshedpur | ByDebashish Sarkar

Mamata blinks first, accepts all demands of agitating doctors

Junior doctors across West Bengal are on a strike since Tuesday after two of their colleagues were brutally attacked and beaten by the relatives of a patient who died at the NRS Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata.

The West Bengal chief minister also reiterated that the Bengal government did not want to invoke the Essential Services Maintenance Act (ESMA) against the agitating junior doctors.(SAMIR JANA/HT PHOTO)

india news

Updated on Jun 15, 2019 08:21 PM IST

Hindustan Times, New Delhi | ByHT Correspondent

More Delhi doctors join hands to protest as Bengal stir enters Day 5

Doctors at the Centre-run Lady Hardinge Medical College and Hospital and RML Hospital, and Delhi government facilities such as Sanjay Gandhi Memorial Hospital and DDU Hospital, boycotted work and held protests.

A majority of hospitals in Delhi had joined the country-wide agitation in support of the doctors in West Bengal(Amal KS/HT PHOTO)

india news

Updated on Jun 15, 2019 01:14 PM IST

New Delhi | ByPress Trust of India

Junior doctors in Jharkhand protest against Bengal impasse, OPD boycott hits patients

The massive impact of junior doctors’ boycotting their duties was felt at RIMS Ranchi where long queues of patients were seen at all OPDs. Patients particularly had a difficult time at medicine, surgery, skin, eye and orthopaedic OPDs. Some of the patients were seen returning from OPDs due to the seemingly unending queues.

Medical students and junior doctors at RIMS present a street play during their demonstration in protest of assault on doctors in West Bengal in Ranchi, India, on Friday, June 14, 2019.(Diwakar Prasad/ Hindustan Times)

cities

Published on Jun 15, 2019 09:16 AM IST

Hindustan Times, Dhanbad | BySubhash Mishra

‘Striking junior doctors hurled abuses at me’: Mamata Banerjee

The chief minister made the allegation hours after her visit to the state-run hospital in the afternoon to take stock of the situation in the wake of disruption of medical services across the state.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Thursday accused the striking junior doctors of the city’s SSKM Hospital of verbally abusing her during her visit there.(PTI)

india news

Updated on Jun 14, 2019 10:38 AM IST

Kolkata | ByPress Trust of India

Services hit at Bengal’s state-run hospitals as doctors strike work after alleged assault on colleague

The junior doctors locked up the hospital gates, stopped work at the outpatient department (OPD) and started a dharna as a mark of protest against the attack. However, patients later broke open the gates to enter the hospital.

Junior doctors at NRS Medical College and Hospital went on strike here on Tuesday after one of their colleagues was allegedly attacked by the family of a patient who died on Monday.(Samir Jana/HT Photo)

india news

Updated on Jun 11, 2019 11:26 PM IST

Hindustan Times, Kolkata | ByHT Correspondent

Funds released but docs won’t end stir till salary is credited

The civic agency said the money would temporarily help the corporation tide over its current financial crisis.

The north civic body said they had received money from the Delhi government and would pay salaries soon(HTPhoto)

cities

Updated on May 21, 2019 07:41 AM IST

Hindustan Times, New Delhi | ByHT Correspondent

Junior doctors of Bihar call off strike, to wait for HC order

The medicos, who struck work on Monday, are demanding that graduates from AIIMS-Patna be excluded from the 50% state quota for admission to postgraduate (PG) courses in the state.

Junior doctors are demonstrating during their strike from three days in support of their demands at the campus of Indira Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences (IGIMS) in Patna. Bihar India on Wednesday April 10,2019.(Photo by Santosh Kumar/Hindustan Times)

cities

Published on Apr 11, 2019 09:01 AM IST

Hindustan Times, Patna | ByRuchir Kumar, Patna

9 surgeries put off as junior docs spar with staff at PMCH

Hospital sources said nine orthopaedic surgeries had to be put off at operation theatre 4 in the Rajendra Surgical Block of the hospital, as medicos boycotted work for the larger part of the day.

Junior doctors reportedly manhandled an office employee, prompting medicos to initially boycott work(File)

cities

Published on Jan 05, 2019 03:16 PM IST

Hindustan Times, Patna | ByHT Correspondent

Health services in Madhya Pradesh hit as 1,200 junior doctors ‘resign’

Junior doctors in government-run hospitals across the state launched an indefinite strike on Monday to press for various demands, including a hike in stipend. However, five of the protesting doctors in Gwalior were expelled by the authorities.

Protesting doctors said the Madhya Pradesh government has clamped Essential Services Maintenance Act (ESMA) on them.(HT/Photo for representation)

cities

Published on Jul 24, 2018 09:19 PM IST

Bhopal | ByPress Trust of India

1,500 UK junior doctors’ credited with wrong score, offered jobs, later withdrawn

Royal College of Physicians (RCP) discovered a significant number of candidates were credited with the wrong score, because of an error transferring data from one computer programme to another - and may therefore have received an incorrect job offer.

The Royal College of Physicians , which oversaw the recruitment, has apologised, blaming human error. It said the process would have to be re-run.(Representative Photo)

world news

Updated on May 06, 2018 03:28 PM IST

Press Trust of India, London | ByPress Trust of India

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Dr Aniket Mahato is among the junior doctors who have been on a ‘fast unto death’ since October 5 demanding justice in the RG Kar case.

Doctor's association FAIMA has announced a nationwide hunger strike on October 9, demanding justice for the RG Kar case victim.

The sweep of the protest is unprecedented. CM Banerjee has failed to strike a chord with the grieving colleagues of the doctor and Bengal’s angry citizenry.

ED sleuths carried out raids on the residences of Sandip Ghosh and three of his associates in connection with alleged financial irregularities.

Kolkata rape-murder case: IMA has said that the entire medical community should trust Supreme Court and adhere to its ruling.

Kolkata rape-murder case: CM Mamata said that police arrested the main accused within 12 hours, after which she directed them to move to the fast-track court.

President Droupadi Murmu urged the nation to “wake up” and end crime against women as she issued her first statement on the Kolkata rape-murder case.

A protest in Kolkata against a junior doctor's rape and murder turned violent as police clashed with demonstrators.

The opposition has been demanding CM Mamata Banerjee's resignation over the rape and murder of a junior doctor in the RG Kar Medical College in Kolkata.

The mob violence, reported after midnight on Thursday, also prompted health care providers and an umbrella body of doctors’ unions to resume a nationwide strike

Sanjay Roy (31), a civic volunteer working for the Kolkata police, was arrested on August 10 as the prime suspect

The 26-year-old junior doctor at the Shri Guru Ram Rai Institute of Medical and Health Sciences in Dehradun was found dead inside his hostel room on May 17.

Dr. Kamalesh Oraon of the pediatric intensive care unit (PICU), Mahatma Gandhi Memorial Medical College Hospital (MGMMCH), was allegedly beaten following the death of a minor girl during treatment late Monday night.

The stand-off between some 3,000 junior doctors and the Madhya Pradesh government continued into the sixth day on Saturday with the former refusing to back down despite the High Court calling their stir illegal.

In a letter to the state’s principal secretary (health),the Junior Doctors Association (JDA), Bihar, claimed that the government, while revising their stipend it on May 9, 2017, had said it would be reviewed every three years.

Ensure colleges produce skilled doctors, and monitor community health providers.

MGMMCH had appointed 31 junior doctors early this month, said Dr Akahuari. He added the appointment of tutors and senior residents, would meet the MCI standard . With Friday’s appointments, MGMMCH now has 44 senior resident doctors against 97 sanctioned posts.

Junior doctors across West Bengal are on a strike since Tuesday after two of their colleagues were brutally attacked and beaten by the relatives of a patient who died at the NRS Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata.

Doctors at the Centre-run Lady Hardinge Medical College and Hospital and RML Hospital, and Delhi government facilities such as Sanjay Gandhi Memorial Hospital and DDU Hospital, boycotted work and held protests.

The chief minister made the allegation hours after her visit to the state-run hospital in the afternoon to take stock of the situation in the wake of disruption of medical services across the state.

The junior doctors locked up the hospital gates, stopped work at the outpatient department (OPD) and started a dharna as a mark of protest against the attack. However, patients later broke open the gates to enter the hospital.

The civic agency said the money would temporarily help the corporation tide over its current financial crisis.

The medicos, who struck work on Monday, are demanding that graduates from AIIMS-Patna be excluded from the 50% state quota for admission to postgraduate (PG) courses in the state.

Hospital sources said nine orthopaedic surgeries had to be put off at operation theatre 4 in the Rajendra Surgical Block of the hospital, as medicos boycotted work for the larger part of the day.

Junior doctors in government-run hospitals across the state launched an indefinite strike on Monday to press for various demands, including a hike in stipend. However, five of the protesting doctors in Gwalior were expelled by the authorities.

Royal College of Physicians (RCP) discovered a significant number of candidates were credited with the wrong score, because of an error transferring data from one computer programme to another - and may therefore have received an incorrect job offer.

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