Doctors across India keep up protests over rape and murder of their colleague
Doctors protest in Mumbai today
DOCTORS rallied outside the Health Ministry in New Delhi today, demanding new laws to protect health workers following the rape and murder of a trainee doctor in Kolkata.
Police intervened to stop the doctors setting up stalls for free outpatient services on the spot, intended to attract the public and promote the cause.
Doctors at the RG Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata, capital of West Bengal state, said they would continue an “indefinite cease-work and sit-in” until demands are met. Though a police volunteer has been arrested in connection with the August 9 murder, the 31-year-old woman victim’s family say more people were involved and it was a gang rape and killing, some of whose perpetrators are being shielded.
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