More than 100 senior doctors including top faculty members resigned from two of the prime medical colleges and hospitals in West Bengal on Wednesday.
They showed solidarity with their protesting junior colleagues who have been on fast-unto-death since the alleged gangrape and murder of a junior doctor in August.
Most of the senior doctors who resigned in bulk are from Calcutta Medical College & Hospital in Kolkata and North Bengal Medical College and Hospital in Siliguri in Darjeeling district.
At Calcutta Medical, a total of 70 senior doctors, including senior faculty members, resigned on Wednesday afternoon.
Though the exact number of doctors who resigned at North Bengal Medical is yet to be known, sources said that the number will not be less than 40.
At the time when this report was filed information surfaced that the senior doctors at Midnapore Medical College & Hospital in West Midnapore district were already geared up to tender mass resignations later in the day.
As many as 50 senior doctors at R.G. Kar Hospital, along with faculty representatives here, tendered their resignation on Tuesday afternoon.
"We have tendered mass resignations now. If the state government wants, we will be forwarding our individual resignations at a later stage," they said in a statement.
If anything happens to the junior doctors fasting at Esplanade in Kolkata, who will take the responsibility of that? So our request to the state government is to take necessary steps before the matter takes a serious turn," said a senior doctor of Calcutta Medical College.
Another resigning senior doctor said that it is unfortunate that protests over the rape and murder have been on for such a long period and there is no seriousness on the part of the state government to address that.
We are now really worried about our seven junior doctors who are holding a fast-unto-death, he added.
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