Senior doctors in west Bengal submitted mass resignation:
Senior doctors from state-run medical colleges and hospitals in West Bengal have resigned masse, sparking a wave of support from doctors at the College of Medicine and Sagore Dutta Hospital and Institute of Post Graduate Medical Education and Research (PGMER). The doctors from these hospitals are also set to tender their resignations, further pressuring the Mamata Banerjee-led government. Three of the junior doctors who were observing in Kolkata and Siliguri ‘fast unto death’ have so far been has been hospitalized after this critical condition
The government refuses to accept collective resignations:
Speaking at a presser, chief advisor to the CM, Alapan Bandyopadhyay, said: “There has been confusion recently regarding the so-called resignation of senior doctors working in government medical colleges and hospitals. We have been receiving certain letters which do refer to mass resignation as a point of reference. Certain pages without any mention of the subject have been annexed to such letters. Those annexed subject less papers do indeed contain some signatures without the designations mentioned.
These mass resignations, as they are being described, actually have no legal value…This kind of generic letter has no legal standing.” He added that an employee needs to send in his/her resignation personally to the employer as per service rules. “Resignation is a subject between the employer and the employed to be discussed in terms of specific service rules.
So, these press releases or these bunches of signatures of people whose identities have not been spelt out in detail in all the papers… this kind of a generic letter has no legal standing. Each page has to be signed by the individual who is tendering such an important paper and the matter has to be seen as one between the employer and the individual employee,” he emphasized
Government says mass resignations have no legal value:
Notably, several senior doctors had clarified that their resignations were “symbolic” and were intended to get the government to engage in discussions with the junior doctors. “Our resignation is symbolic, aimed at prompting the government to engage in discussions. We do not want the patients to suffer. We are treating them and will continue to do so because it is our duty and we are morally obliged to do that,” Dr Sunit Hazra, an orthopaedic surgeon at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, told PTI.
Senior doctors from state-run medical colleges and hospitals in West Bengal have resigned in masse, sparking a wave of support from doctors at the College of Medicine and Sagore Dutta Hospital and Institute of Post Graduate Medical Education and Research (PGMER).
