Amid the ongoing nationwide protest by doctors demanding security of staff in hospitals, West Bengal Chief Minsiter on Friday insisted that those living in West Bengal will have to learn to speak in Bengali.
The Trinamool Congress supremo today reiterated that outsiders instigated the doctors’ agitation in the state and accused the BJP of targeting the Bengalis and the minorities.
“Outsiders are instigating the doctors. I had rightly said that they were involved in yesterday’s protest. I had seen some outsiders raising slogans (at SSKM hospital),” she said, while addressing a rally.
“The police will take action against the hooligans. If someone is living in Bengal, he or she has to learn Bengali,” she added.
Doctors in West Bengal and several other states have called for a nationwide doctor’s strike demanding security for staff in Government-run hospitals. The mass protest was called on since Tuesday after two junior doctors were attacked and seriously injured at the NRS Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata by the relatives of a patient who died.
The murderous assault on two junior doctors identified as Paribaha Mukhopadhyay and Yash Tekwani on Monday set in motion the sequence of events leading to the paralysed state of Bengal’s public-sector healthcare system.
After two days protest and demanding state government’s intervention in the mater, West Bengal’s Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday finally intervened. Banerjee reached the SSKM Hospital campus around noon and ordered the striking junior doctors to “get back to work in four hours,” failing which the government would act against them, which would include eviction from hostels
