Indian doctors strike after trainee medic is raped and killed
Doctors took to the streets across India to demand changes to healthcare worker protections, after a female student medic was raped and murdered last week.
Doctors took to the streets across India on Wednesday to demand sweeping changes to healthcare worker protections, after a female student doctor was raped and murdered last week at a government-run hospital.
The strike came as federal investigators arrived in the eastern city of Kolkata, the capital of West Bengal state where the incident happened, following demands from protestors for an inquiry.
According to state-owned All India Radio, federal forensic experts and medical officers were expected to visit the R.G. Kar Medical College and Hospital, where authorities found the body of the 31-year-old resident doctor in a seminar hall on Friday.
Police said the woman's body showed signs of sexual abuse as well as several injuries, and that one suspect has been arrested.
A wave of anger broke over Kolkata last week as doctors, who have long complained about working conditions in India's dilapidated and overcrowded government hospitals, declared a strike, bringing elective procedures to a standstill.
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