Seven doctors on hunger strike in Kolkata for 13 days, demanding justice and improved healthcare services in State-run hospitals.

Six were subsisting only on water and were admitted into the hospital after a multiday fast to demand justice for the brutal rape and killing of a medical resident.

Junior doctor Aniket Mahato, who was hospitalised after his health worsened from sitting on a hunger strike in Kolkata, was released from the hospital today, October 17. Mahato was part of the indefinite hunger strike calling for justice for the RG Kar hospital rape-and-murder victim.

A massive fire at Sealdah ESI Hospital in Kolkata on Friday required 10 fire engines to extinguish. Despite successful evacuations, one cancer patient died purportedly due to smoke inhalation.

A massive fire broke out at ESI Hospital in the Sealdah area of Kolkata around 6 in the morning. 10 fire engines were rushed to the spot immediately.

A fire at Sialdah ESI Hospital in Kolkata early this morning resulted in the death of a cancer patient, prompting an investigation into the hospital's fire safety measures.