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Doctors strike in India after rape and murder of trainee medic at hospital
https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/aug/12/doctors-strike-in-india-after-and-at-state-run-hospitalDoctors strike in India after rape and murder of trainee medic at hospital
Call for better safety measures as ‘civic volunteer’ arrested after attack on female trainee doctor in Kolkata
Amrit Dhillon in Delhi
Mon 12 Aug 2024 06.51 EDT
Doctors at government hospitals in several Indian states have gone on strike in a protest after the rape and murder of a trainee doctor in Kolkata on Friday.
The 31-year-old woman was attacked at the state-run RG Kar medical college, where she was a resident doctor, after she went to rest in a seminar room following dinner with colleagues. Her brutalised body was found with multiple injuries and an autopsy confirmed sexual assault and homicide.
On Saturday police arrested Sanjay Roy, a “civic volunteer” at the hospital, in connection with the attack. Roy’s duties were unclear but local media reports said he operated in part as a tout, helping to speed up admissions for patients in return for money.
Protests by doctors demanding justice and better workplace security that initially began in Kolkata, in West Bengal, have now spread to other parts of the country.
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Call for better safety measures as ‘civic volunteer’ arrested after attack on female trainee doctor in Kolkata
Amrit Dhillon in Delhi
Mon 12 Aug 2024 06.51 EDT
Doctors at government hospitals in several Indian states have gone on strike in a protest after the rape and murder of a trainee doctor in Kolkata on Friday.
The 31-year-old woman was attacked at the state-run RG Kar medical college, where she was a resident doctor, after she went to rest in a seminar room following dinner with colleagues. Her brutalised body was found with multiple injuries and an autopsy confirmed sexual assault and homicide.
On Saturday police arrested Sanjay Roy, a “civic volunteer” at the hospital, in connection with the attack. Roy’s duties were unclear but local media reports said he operated in part as a tout, helping to speed up admissions for patients in return for money.
Protests by doctors demanding justice and better workplace security that initially began in Kolkata, in West Bengal, have now spread to other parts of the country.
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