West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee calls protests of junior doctors as gathering of political parties

Kolkata : West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday upped the ante against the agitating junior doctors and posted a message on Facebook terming the agitating doctors as outsiders and their protest as gathering of political parties.
Mamata said in her Faecbook post that an unfortunate incident took place in NRS Hospital and she had asked the Minister of State, Health and Family Welfare, Chandrima Bhattacharjee to visit the injured junior doctor who was assualted by at the NRS Hospital on Tuesday allegedly by family members of a deceased patient who blamed medical negligence for the death.
Earlier on Thursday, Mamata also wrote a letter to senior doctors and professors of Medical Colleges & Hospitals across the state appealing to them to take care of all patients in the state. In her letter, Mamata mentioned that poor people from all districts are coming to hospitals for treatment and they must be treated properly.
The West Bengal chief minister on Thursday tried to put pressure on protesting junior doctors by asking them to resume work by 2:00 pm on Thursday or they would be evacuated from the hostel where they reside. The protesting junior doctors, however, refused to end their strike and demanded that the government must first esnure the safety and security of doctors working at state-run hospitals.