The two junior doctors were assaulted on Monday night by family members of a patient who died in the NRS Hospital. She should not have said what she had," a spokesperson of the joint forum of junior doctors, Dr Arindam Dutta, said. The principal and the medical superintendent of the NRS Medical College and Hospital submitted their resignations on Thursday night. Junior doctors in Odisha staged dharna with bandages on their foreheads, besides staying away from duty. Among them were Banerjee's nephew Abesh Banerjee, state Urban Development Minister Firhad Hakim's daughter Shabba and son of TMC MP Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar.

Source: dna June 14, 2019 18:56 UTC