Opinion: What the doctors’ protests in India are missing
In early August, a doctor was raped and murdered in a Kolkata public hospital by a “civic volunteer” who was neither a patient nor a staff member. The crime has enraged and rattled the medical profession in India. For weeks now, doctors have been protesting throughout the country, demanding among other things “justice for the victim” and a safer work environment. In the state of West Bengal, where Kolkata is located, junior doctors in public hospitals have been on a month-long strike.
But those protests are missing something important: The terrible crime was less about medicine and more about the ongoing epidemic of violence against women.
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