Mamata removes Chief of Kolkata police, 2 health officials
International Desk
West Bengal Chief Minster (CM) Mamata Banerjee, after meeting with the protesting junior doctors, has announced the removal of two top officials of the health department and the Chief of Kolkata police.
Along with it, the police chief of the city's north zone -- where RG Kar Medical College, the hospital where the rape-murder of a young doctor took place, is located -- will also be removed.
Though the impasse is solved, the protest and the ceasework is expected to continue till the formal orders are issued in the morning.
"I think the meeting was positive. Am sure they think too," she said. "Or why else we will sign the minutes of the meeting and they would sign it too?" she added.
Banerjee said they have accepted 99 per cent of the doctors' demands, "because they are our younger brothers".
"I know they say they will go and discuss and then will decide on lifting the ceasework. But I have requested them to do so, citing the condition of patients, especially in view of the floods in some of the districts," the Chief Minister said.
