After writing a strong letter last week to Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee asking her to intervene in the ongoing indefinite fast resorted to by the junior doctors demanding justice for their postgraduate colleague who was on August 9 raped and murdered inside the RG Kar Medical College and Hospital the Federation of Medical Associations (FeMA) has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi requesting him to take steps so as to save Bengal which they claimed was "passing through its darkest phase post Independence."

Requesting the Prime Minister to visit Kolkata where junior doctors' indefinite fast entered its ninth day on Sunday the FeMa wrote that it was only his intervention that could save the lives of the junior doctors.

Earlier the organsiation had written to the Chief Minister saying if the movement was not defused by taking some positive step and if there was a casualty among the protesting doctors then the movement would go beyond control and even the central force would not be able to control it.

"No amount of vote bank or police force will be able to stop the movement. We will make sure that this extreme step that you are forcing us to take will be supported by every common man and even your own vote bank. It will soon be followed by similar action Pan India. Even central forces will not be sufficient to douse the flames," the FeMa wrote to the Chief Minister. However there was "still no response from the Government," the doctors' organization said.  

Meanwhile, out of nine junior fasting doctors --- seven in Kolkata and two in Siliguri --- three had been hospitalized as their condition deteriorated.

While Dr Aniket was hospitalized on Thursday night two more doctors one from Kolkata and. one from Siliguri were rushed to the hospitals as ketone levels in their blood increased steadily. However in their places two more doctors joined the indefinite fast, sources said.