West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has agreed to meet three of the five demands of protesting junior doctors. Two senior health officials and a top police officer will be transferred following the protests triggered by the rape-murder of a doctor. The protest continues until formal orders are issued.
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- Mamata Banerjee met protesting doctors after 38-day strike.
- Agreed to remove two health officials and police chief of North Kolkata.
- Protests began after rape-murder of a young doctor at RG Kar Medical College.
- Doctors declared the state’s acceptance a “big victory.”
- ₹100 crore pledged for hospital infrastructure upgrade.
- Verbal assurance only, formal orders awaited.
- Police chief accused of evidence tampering in the case.
- CBI arrested the hospital’s former principal in connection with corruption and evidence tampering.
- Protests to continue for complete resolution, especially health secretary’s removal.
- Supreme Court urged doctors to return to work, but Bengal protests continued.
