West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee directed agitating doctors in the state to resume work by 2pm on Thursday and threatened to take action if orders are not followed. The Bengal CM faced protests by junior doctors who shouted “we want justice” when she visited SSKM Hospital in Kolkata on Thursday. At the spot, Mamata Banerjee expressed anger at the stir, and gave the doctors a deadline to resume duty. Relatives of patients also blocked arterial A J C Bose Road in front of Kolkata’s Nil Ratan Sarkar Medical College and Hospital (NRS) in the morning. In a few hospitals such as SSKM Hospital in Kolkata and Burdwan Medical College, senior doctors provided services in outpatients’ department and emergency though junior doctors stayed away everywhere.

Source: Hindustan Times June 13, 2019 07:28 UTC