KOLKATA: At least 15 senior doctors from various state-run hospitals tendered their resignation on Wednesday in solidarity with their juniors’ movement, seeking justice for the rape-murder victim of RG Kar Medical College and Hospital.

Healthcare services in West Bengal remained operational despite mass resignations from senior doctors at various medical colleges. The resignations aim to pressure the state government into addressing the demands of protesting junior doctors.

Kolkata: The mass resignation trend has been spreading fast among the senior doctors at various government medical colleges and hospitals in West Bengal a day after it began at R G Kar

Over 100 more senior doctors from four other state-run medical colleges and hospitals in West Bengal have tendered mass resignations during the last couple of hours to express solidarity with their junior colleagues.

The indefinite strike by seven junior doctors, which started on Saturday night, entered the fourth day on Wednesday

Doctors at Maulana Azad Medical College in Delhi on Wednesday began a one-day hunger strike to show solidarity with junior doctors in West Bengal who are protesting the brutal rape and murder of a female medic.