Junior doctors in West Bengal call off strike after meeting Mamata Banerjee

Earlier, the protesting doctors had agreed for a meeting the chief minister only if it was telecast live by the media

Junior doctors in West Bengal on Monday evening called off their week-long strike after meeting Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee at the state’s secretariat.

With a list of 12 demands, 31 junior doctors representing their fraternity met Banerjee in the presence of Minister of State Chandrima Bhattacharya, administrative heads, police and senior doctors; the meeting was telecast live from the secretariat.

Governor Keshari Nath Tripathi welcomed the breakthrough and hoped that doctors will take up the work of care and treatment of patients, and the state government will take all the steps that it committed to in the meeting expeditiously.

The breakthrough came on