Doctors strike across India to protest rape and murder of trainee medic

Thousands of doctorshave gone on strike across India to demand better protection for health workers after a trainee medic was raped and murderedin eastern West Bengal state.. ..

The resident doctors body was found last Friday with multiple injuries and signs of sexual assault in a seminar hall at the RG Kar Medical College and Hospital in the city of Kolkata, local police said..

On Monday, medical associations in multiple statesurged doctors at government hospitals to stop providing all elective services indefinitely as they called for the case to be fast-tracked through the courts and for the establishment of a protective committee for health workers.. ..

The murder of this young lady doctor is not the first, neither it would be the last if corrective measures are not taken, theassociation said in a letter to the health minister, posted on X on Tuesday, as itcalled for an enquiry into doctors working conditions andan impartial investigation of the brutal murder case.. ..

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said she was shocked to learn the trainee doctor had been killed in the hospital and backed protesters calls for the case to be fast tracked.. . India has struggled for years to tackle high rates of violence against women, with a number of high-profile rape cases drawing international attention to the issue.. ..

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