WB: Jr doctors continue sit-in, waiting for demands to be fulfilled

Jr doctors continue sit-in in Kolkata

Kolkata: Despite calling off their 'total cease work', agitating junior doctors in West Bengal continued their sit-in on Saturday in central Kolkata, alleging that the police baton-charged a few of them during a rally to press for justice for the deceased woman medic of RG Kar Medical College and Hospital.

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Braving the rain, they held the demonstration throughout the night in the Esplanade area.

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Jr doctors hold demonstration

Demostration despite rains
Some were seen standing there with umbrellas in one hand, while others managed to get shelter under a temporary plastic shade at the Dorina crossing in the area, protesting the alleged baton charge by the police on Friday during their rally from the SSKM hospital in the southern part of the city to Esplanade. (with Agency inputs)