On June 13. 2019, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, while reprimanding the striking state hospital doctors,  gave them a four-hour ultimatum to withdraw their strike and warned of "strong action' if they do not resume work within the deadline. Banerjee visited the state-run Seth Sukhlal Karnani Memorial (SSKM) Hospital, where the junior doctors had joined in the two-day long strike alongside their colleagues across the state in protest against the attack on an intern in another city hospital.

#WestBengal Chief Minister #MamataBanerjee visited the state-run Seth Sukhlal Karnani Memorial (#SSKM) Hospital where the junior doctors held a strike since the last two days in protest of attack on doctors in another city hospital.

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She spoke to some of the patients and their family members waiting at the hospital's lobby outside the emergency department and issued instructions to the hospital officials over phone, as the protesting doctors continued to raise slogans, demanding "justice".