Junior doctors and medical students across government medical colleges in Mumbai participated in a hunger strike on Tuesday to support the fast-unto-death agitation by their counterparts in West Bengal, the Indian Medical Association said. Doctors in West Bengal began their hunger strike on October 5, following nearly 50 days of ‘cease work’ in two phases, after the rape and murder of a postgraduate trainee at state-run RG Kar Medical College and Hospital on August 9.

IMA national vice president Shivkumar Utture said, “Medical students and junior doctors are the most affected by such incidents, and more than 60 days have gone by, and at the ground level, nothing has changed. Therefore, the IMA Medical Students Network and IMA Junior Doctors Network decided to participate in symbolic sit-outs to support the hunger strike in West Bengal.”