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The Federation of All India Medical Association (FAIMA) has announced a nationwide hunger strike on Wednesday (October 9) to support the ongoing protest against the alleged rape and murder of a junior doctor in West Bengal. "We have been in close contact with the West Bengal Junior Doctors' Front and are united in our stance," said Suvrankar Datta, President of FAIMA. Datta also emphasised that the hunger strike is intended to amplify the voices of the junior doctors who have been on strike for weeks, advocating for better working conditions, enhanced safety protocols, and other essential reforms.
The doctors' association has also called on healthcare workers across the country to participate in the strike, to highlight unity among medical professionals in their fight for fair treatment and improved conditions, FAIMA said in a statement. On October 8, nearly 50 senior doctors of RG Kar Hospital resigned in a mark of solidarity with medics who have been on fast-unto-death since October 5. The development came in the wake of the indefinite hunger strike being conducted by seven junior doctors in the heart of the city and a symbolic 12-hour fast being held in solidarity by their peers across medical colleges of West Bengal.
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