US EditionDoctors strike across India to protest rape and murder of trainee medic
- Thousands of doctors have gone on strike across India to demand better protection for health workers after a trainee medic was raped and murdered in eastern West Bengal state.
- The resident doctor’s body was found with multiple injuries and signs of sexual assault in a seminar hall at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata.
- Medical federations in multiple states urged doctors to stop providing all elective services and called for a protective committee for health workers.
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India is shaken by the rape and murder of a 31-year-old doctor. In protest, doctors are largely shutting down the country's supply for 24 hours. They are calling for more security and punishment for perpetrators.
A week ago, India was shocked by the news of the rape and murder of a trainee doctor in Calcutta. After the event, protests took place in cities across the country, and the paralysis of all non-emergency medical services was announced for Saturday. More than a million doctors joined the 24-hour protest.
Patients turned away as doctors hold mass strike in India over rape and murder of trainee medic
Patients are being turned away from hospitals and clinics across India as more than a million doctors are set to join a strike in protest at the rape and murder of a trainee medic.
In Calcutta, a young doctor in training is raped and killed. Now a million doctors across the country go on strike for 24 hours.
A doctor was raped and murdered in a hospital in the Indian metropolis of Kolkata. The horror is great - doctors are now calling for strikes across the country.
The Physicians Association of India (IMA, in English), the largest in the country, began a national strike this Saturday that paralyzed the...
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