Docs' cease work stir at WB hospital continues after patient kin's assault

Junior doctors and nurses continued their 'cease work' agitation at state-run Sagar Dutta Hospital in West Bengal's North 24 Parganas district on Saturday in protest against assault on staffers by the relatives of a patient.

The staffers of the hospital located in Kamarhati near Kolkata launched the 'cease work' protest late on Friday after some of them were allegedly beaten up by the relatives of the patient who died during treatment.

Three junior doctors along with three nurses and healthcare workers were injured in the incident, a junior doctor said.

The junior doctors and nurses subsequently called for a 'cease work' stir demanding better security arrangements.

The condition of the patient, a middle-aged woman who suffered from acute breathing problems, was critical, he said.

"The patient was admitted to the hospital on Friday with breathing difficulties. Her condition was not good and healthcare workers attempted to administer oxygen but it was too late and she died. But her