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Kolkata, June 15 (TIWN) Striking junior doctors in West Bengal on Saturday once again turned down Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's proposal for talks at the state secretariat - Nabanna, and stuck to their stand that she would have to come down to NRS Medical College and Hospital to listen to their grievances.
Thirty four doctors at Kalyani's Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Hospital also tendered their resignations in solidarity with the state's government hospital doctors who resigned on Friday, the hospital authorities said. "Yesterday, the Director Medical Education of West Bengal University of Health Sciences verbally informed us that Chief Minister has asked to meet some of our representatives at her office. For the last two days, the CM has made offensive and inappropriate statements directed towards doctors. "Following that, we faced mob attacks and physical assaults at different medical and dental colleges and hospitals across the state. We are deeply upset and hopeless and we feel highly insecure and apprehensive about our representatives' meeting with her behind the closed doors. That is why we are not sending any representative to her office," Abhishek Sarkar, an intern at the College told reporters after their General Body meeting.
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