Medicos' cease work continues in Kolkata

Kolkata, May 25: The indefinite cease work by junior doctors in seven medical colleges in Kolkata continued for the second day today while Union Minister Priya Ranjan Dasmunsi condemned the countrywide agitation as 'unfortunate and disgraceful'.

Patients had a harrowing time in five medical and two dental colleges where medicos were on strike, except in the emergency department, since yesterday, in protest against the government's decision to increase the OBC quota in higher educational institutions.

The institutes where the junior doctors have been on strike are Calcutta Medical College and Hospital, Nilratan Sircar Medical College and Hospital, R G Kar Medical College and Hospital, SSKM Medical College and Hospital, Chittaranajan Medical College and Hospital, Dr R Ahmed Dental Medical College and Hospital and Guru Nanak Dental Medical College and Hospital.

Meanwhile, taking a dig at the continued agitation of junior doctors throughout the country, Information and Broadcasting Minister Priyaranjan Dasmunsi said those opposing the reservation policy were against uplift of the people of backward class.

''It is unfortunate, shameful and disgraceful that a section of students are opposing benefits to their counterparts belonging to the socially and economically backward classes,'' he told reporters.

Besides beginning the cease work, the city medicos had put up blockade on three arterial roads of the city yesterday throwing traffic out of gear for several hours. However, a representative of Youth for Equality, the organization spearheading the movement, said they had no such plans for today.

UNI

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