NEW DELHI: The West Bengal authorities on Saturday rejected the mass resignations tendered by senior medical doctors of the state-run-hospitals saying papers had no “authorized worth.” This got here after the Mamata authorities obtained a number of resignation letters from medical doctors in assist of the junior medical doctors’ fast-onto-death strike, who’re demanding justice for the PG trainee medic in rape and homicide case.
“We now have been receiving sure letters which do discuss with mass resignation as some extent of reference. Sure pages with none point out of the topic have been annexed to such letters. These annexed subjectless papers do certainly comprise some signatures with out the designations talked about. These mass resignations, as they’re being described, really don’t have any authorized worth…This type of generic letter has no authorized standing,” Alapan Bandyopadhyay, chief advisor to chief minister Mamata Banerjee, stated.
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“Except an worker sends in his/her resignation personally to the employer as per service guidelines, it’s not a resignation letter,” he added.
Earlier this week, over 50 of senior school members at RG Kar Medical School submitted a collectively signed “mass resignation” letter in assist of their protesting junior colleagues. This transfer was shortly adopted by related letters from medical doctors at different state-run hospitals.
Junior medical doctors throughout varied authorities hospitals within the state are at present on a fast-unto-death, demanding justice for his or her murdered colleague, the resignation of the state’s well being secretary, and improved office safety.
In response, the federal government has acknowledged that healthcare companies at state-run hospitals stay uninterrupted, as senior medical doctors proceed their duties as common. The junior medical doctors had beforehand known as off their ‘whole stop work’ at medical schools and hospitals on October 4.