West Bengal Junior Doctors' Forum (WBJDF), the umbrella body spearheading the protests of medicatrians against the ghastly rape and murder of a junior doctor in the R.G. Kar Medical College and Hospital here, will continue its 'cease work' demonstration after the crucial meeting with Chief Secretary Manoj Pant on Wednesday failed as the latter reportedly refused to make a formal record of the minutes of the meeting.
Differences of opinion between the representatives of WBJDF and the state government could be felt even after the formal meeting, which started at 7.30 p.m. on Wednesday, was over in little over two hours and the deliberations between the two parties over finalising the minutes of the meeting stretched for over three hours after the meeting got over.
Finally, a little after 12.30 a.m. on Thursday, the delegation members of WBJDF came out from the state Secretariat, meeting venue, and explained that how the state government's "reluctance" to get the minutes of the meeting recorded and signed by all the participants from both sides "resulted into the meeting being unfruitful".
"The state government gave us verbal assurances to fulfill some of our unresolved demands. But it refused to get it recorded. The Chief Secretary has asked us to send a draft of the minutes of the meeting from our end by email tomorrow (Thursday). We will first go back to our demonstration site in front of the state Health Department headquarters at Salt Lake, have a general body meeting with all demonstrators and then decide our next course of action," said a representative of the 30-member delegation of WBJDF.
"The outcome of the meeting was very frustrating because we only received verbal assurance. No written assurance was given," another member of the delegation said.
None of the participants from the state government side who attended the meeting reacted to the proceedings of the meeting till the time the report was filed.
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