Kolkata, June 13 (TIWN / IANS) Amid the ongoing impasse in the West Bengal hospitals over junior doctors' strike, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday issued a letter to the senior doctors in the state, appealing to them to take care of all patients.

Banerjee, who had earlier today issued a four-hour ultimatum to junior doctors to return to work, told doctors in a letter that she will be “obliged and honoured” if they take full care of patients.  “My humble regards to all of you. Please take care of all patients. The poor people are coming from all districts. I will be obliged and honoured if you all please take full care of the hospitals. Hospitals must run smoothly and peacefully,” she wrote.  “Thanks for your full co-operation,” she added.  Protests by doctors following an attack on a junior doctor at Nil Ratan Sircar Medical College and Hospital entered the third day on Thursday.  Pariboho Mukherjee, a doctor, suffered serious injuries to his skull when family members of a 75-year-old patient, Mohammed Shahid, clashed with doctors alleging that the patient died because of negligence.