Bengal CM Mamata to remove Kolkata police chief, two senior health officials
17-Sep-2024 07:57 AM 7733
Kolkata, Sep 16 (Reporter) West Bengal Mamata Banerjee on Monday night agreed to remove Kolkata Police Commissioner Vineet Goyal, Deputy Commissioner (North) Abhishek Gupta and two senior health officials after a meeting with the protesting junior medics at her residence here. Banerjee, describing the meeting as fruitful, said a new CP would be named after 4 PM on Tuesday. Goyal will be given a new assignment. She said there will be a reshuffle in the police department. Acceding to another demand from the junior doctors of government medical colleges, who have been on a cease work protest since the alleged rape and murder of a lady medic in her workplace - the R G Kar Medical College and Hospital - Banerjee said the Director of Health Services and the Director of Medical Education would also be removed. She also said the safety and security in the working place of the medics would be ensured Regarding the medic's demand for removing the state health secretary Narayan Nigam, the CM convinced the doctors that removing him would create a vacuum in the health department as two senior officials were already being shunted out. The junior doctors have been holding a sit-in protest outside the state health department headquarters Swasthya Bhavan since Tuesday last. The medics said several of the issues were settled and there were more things to be achieved. They will likely issue a media statement after holding a general body meeting of the West Bengal Junior Doctors Front late at night. The medics came out of the CM's residence in South Kolkata's Kalighat after about five hours...////...
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