Doctors in India launch nationwide strike after trainee is raped and murdered

Doctors in India took to the streets on Saturday 17 August as part of a 24 hour strike after the rape and murder of a trainee doctor at a hospital in Kolkata.1The incident took place on 9 August while the 31 year old was working a 36 hour shift. A week later the hospital was vandalised by a crowd of people who “destroyed various sections of the hospital including the area where the victim was found,” the Indian Medical Association (IMA) has said.More than a million doctors are expected to have joined the protest, which led to hospitals and clinics turning patients away except in emergencies.“Doctors across the country have withdrawn non-essential services today and are providing only emergency and casualty services,” the IMA said in a letter to the prime minister, Narendra Modi. “Doctors, especially women, are vulnerable to violence because of the nature of the profession. It is…
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