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.
Students said that they want the government to admit them to medical colleges without entrance test and without having to pay lakhs as tuition fees.
Mamata Banerjee said that her government would allow the Ukraine-return medical interns to work at the state-run medical colleges and offer them stipends. There are 11 such interns.
The incident took place on Friday night, and the injured included four medical students and a firefighter.
They also demanded that the health secretary N S Nigam must have to sit on a meeting with them inside the college campus to solve the crisis.
Vice Chancellor Raj Kumar has assured that action would be taken against the guilty.
