Junior doctors in West Bengal continued their protest on Thursday, holding a sit-in outside the state's health department office, following the alleged rape and murder of a young female doctor at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital. The strike over the Kolkata doctor rape-murder case, now in its 34th day, has severely disrupted healthcare services in government-run hospitals, reported PTI. 

The protesting doctors, per the report, have been demonstrating outside ‘Swathya Bhavan’, the health department’s headquarters in Salt Lake, for over 40 hours. Their demands include the presence of Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and a live broadcast of any talks aimed at resolving the situation. However, these preconditions were rejected by the government.