West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee today conceded a demand of
striking junior medics for live coverage of her meeting with them at Nabanna to end the current impasse as cease work by doctors for past seven days virtually crippled medical care in the government hospitals across the state.
The strikers insisted that their meeting with the chief minister to be telecast live in presence media to ensure transparency and accountability saying the nation has right to know why people have been suffering for the strike, which must be ended.
Meanwhile, the government sent a bus to NRS to take the representatives of the striking medics to Nabanna where meeting, scheduled for 3 pm, might take place a bit late.
About 28 representatives from 14 medical colleges and principal of NRS Saibal Mukherjee to lead the delegation to Nabanna.” Everyone one is hoping for positive, as the striking doctors boarded the bus bound for Nabanna”.
Earlier in the day the medics at the NRS Hospital said that they did not get formal invitation from the government to join in the meeting, which was scheduled at 3 pm in Nabanna, the state secretariat. ” We are trying to arrange live coverage but there will no media people presence in the meeting,” Mitra reiterated.
(UNI)
