Doctors strike in India after rape and murder at state-run hospital
by Amrit Dhillon in Delhi from World news | The Guardian on (#6PXDX)
Medics demand better safety measures as civic volunteer' arrested after attack on female trainee doctor in Kolkata
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.
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