Doctors strike LIVE: Junior doctors call off week-long strike

As the strike of doctors in West Bengal entered the seventh day, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee met the agitating doctors on Monday. The nationwide strike called by the Indian Medical Association (IMA) to extend solidarity to the Kolkata doctors is underway. Stay tuned for live updates

Junior doctors in West Bengal call off week-long strike after meeting with Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee.

Mamata meets doctors, assures new security measures

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee asked the police to appoint nodal officers for the security of doctors at all government hospital in the state as she met the striking medicos on Monday in a bid to end the week-long impasse.

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Mamata Banerjee directs formation of grievance redressal units in all West Bengal hospitals as proposed by junior doctors at meeting.

We are scared while working, want exemplary punishment for those who assaulted NRS doctors: Joint forum of junior doctors at meeting with Mamata Banerjee.

We have taken adequate measures, arrested five people involved in NRS hospital incident: Mamata

No doctor has been booked by state government: Banerjee at meeting with protesting junior doctors.

Apart from West Bengal health secretary, MoS Chandrima Bhattacharya and state officials, 31 junior doctors are at meeting with Mamata Banerjee.

Only two regional news channels allowed to cover meeting between Mamata Banerjee and junior doctors at state secretariat.

Junior doctors apprise Banerjee of the problems they have been facing at medical colleges and hospitals.

Meeting between West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee and agitating junior doctors starts at state secretariat.

Mamata Banerjee arrives for meeting with representatives of doctors at Nabanna

Meeting between Mamata and junior doctors to start soon

After several disagreements and hurdles especially over the agitating junior doctors' demand of the live coverage of the meeting between them and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is all set to take place as the Chief Minister has agreed for"live coverage" of the meeting.

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West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee agrees to live coverage of meeting with agitating doctors.

Kerela: Docs boycott work for 2 hours in govt hospitals

Healthcare services across Kerala were affected as doctors of state-run hospitals boycotted work for two hours on Monday and those of the private hospitals supporting the 24-hour nationwide strike being observed in support of the protests in West Bengal.

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28,000 Gujarat doctors join nationwide stir, OPD services hit

Non-essential health services were affected in Gujarat on Monday as nearly 28,000doctorsboycotted work in response to their apex body IMA's strike call following an attack on two medical practitioners in West Bengal, an official said.

Juniordoctorsand interns held protests in Ahmedabad, Surat, Rajkot, Vadodara, Jamnagar and other major towns of the state and did not report to work in the Out-Patient Departments (OPDs) of various government and private hospitals.

While the OPD services in all major government-run hospitals were hit to some extent, the emergency and indoor medical services were not affected.

(PTI)

Doctor's Strike: Patients from different parts of Karnataka wait at Nimhans OPD block. (DH Photo)

Students and doctors of Rajendra Institute of Medical Sciences (RIMS) hold placards during their strike in protest against the attack on an intern doctor, in Ranchi. (PTI Photo)

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee will meet two representatives from each Medical College of the state in Nabana on June 17th.

SC to hear plea on hospital security staff on June 18

The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to consider a plea for a direction to deploy uniformed security personnel at every government hospital of the country to ensure safety and security of the doctors, who often faced assault by the patients' kin.

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Uncertainty looms over junior doctors' meeting with CM

Uncertainty loomed over the meeting of agitating junior doctors and West Bengal Chief Minister Banerjee as the former on Monday morning claimed that they have not received any press statement or official invitation for such a meeting. The meeting was expected to take place today at 3 pm at the Secretariat.

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Resident Doctors' Association of All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) to go on strike from 12 noon today till 6 am tomorrow, in support of doctors strike over violence against them in West Bengal. Emergency services including Casualty, ICU and Labour room to be continued. (ANI)

Pvt hospitals in Karnataka to halt OPD services

Private hospitals across the state will shut all non-emergency services on Monday, despite an appeal from the Health Family Welfare Minister to limit their protest to a symbolic gesture. The government hospitals, however, will function as usual.

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CM can choose venue; meeting must be held in open: Docs

Agitating junior doctors in West Bengal softened their stand on Sunday and asserted that Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee was free to decide the venue of the meeting with them, but stressed that it should be held in open.

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IMA to go ahead with June 17 nationwide strike

The Indian Medical Association (IMA) on Sunday said it will go ahead with its strike on June 17 with the withdrawal of non-essential health services across the country in the wake of the recent assault on doctors in West Bengal.

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