Yet another platform of doctors reportedly backed by the ruling Trinamul Congress was floated on Monday aiming to counter medics and medical students allegedly belonging to the opposition camps like CPM and SUCI.
Just a century ago, a college in Bankura, run by Irish Missionaries, had introduced chemistry as a subject in 1924.
The court said abstention from the work of doctors affects those segments of the society that are in need of medical care.
Junior doctors and medical students of R G Kar Medical College Hospital on Friday demanded resignation of the commissioner of police (CP) Vineet Goyal
Junior doctors at Lady Hardinge Medical College and Hospital and RML Hospital in the national capital staged a protest against the rape and murder of a woman resident doctor in Kolkata.
South Korea’s health ministry on Thursday said it would begin suspending the medical licences of trainee doctors who have defied a return-to-work order from next week, as the government pushed ahead with its plan to hike the number of medical students.
Tensions brewed between doctors and the government over the latter's plan to add 2,000 to the country's medical school enrollment quota next year.
Protesting students alleged that some unknown people entered the hostel premises on Sunday night and attacked them.
The Congress leader accused the Manohar Lal Khattar Government of being insensitive to the ongoing agitation of medical students in the state against its bond policy.
A bench of justices Aniruddha Bose and Vikram Nath questioned the Additional Solicitor General Aishwarya Bhati, representing Centre, to file an affidavit highlighting the details of the number of medical students who have been adjusted in third countries and how the process is going there.
