The West Bengal government on Saturday termed the 'mass resignations' by doctors as 'generic letters' and said it has ‘no legal value’.
Senior doctors of the state-run hospitals had tendered their resignations to CM Mamata Banerjee, in support of the junior doctors' fast-onto-death strike, demanding justice for the trainee doctor raped and murdered at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital.
"We have been receiving certain letters which do refer to mass resignation as a point reference. Certain pages without any mention of the subject have been annexed to such letters. Those annexed subjectless papers do indeed contain some signatures without the designations mentioned," said Alapan Bandyopadhyay, chief advisor to CM Mamata Banerjee.
These mass resignations, as they are being described, actually have no legal value and this kind of generic letter has no legal standing, he added.
About 50 senior faculty members of the RG Kar Medical College tendered their resignations in support of the protesting junior doctors.
Despite appeals from the Bengal government urging the junior doctors to resume work, they continued their 'fast-unto-death' protest at Dorina crossing in central Kolkata.
The protesting junior doctors had been demanding the removal of Health Secretary N.S. Nigam over alleged administrative failures.
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Meanwhile, Bandyopadhyay added that unless an employee sends in his/her resignation personally to the employer as per service rules, it is not a resignation letter.
Also, the government asserted that the healthcare services in the state-run hospitals have not been disrupted, as the senior doctors continue to work normally.