In a further move against the r@pe and kill!ng of a female colleague in Kolkata, West Bengal, doctors in India have launched a nationwide walkout.
The largest medical association in the nation, the Indian Medical Association (IMA), announced that all non-essential hospital services would be closed on Saturday nationwide.
The IMA called the kill!ng that occurred last week a “crime of barbaric scale due to the lack of safe spaces for women” and requested the nation’s assistance in its “struggle for justice”.
Following a mob’s vandalism of the hospital where the att@ck occurred, calls for improved protection for women and protests against it have become more intense in recent days.
The IMA said in a statement that the strike would go for a whole day and that emergency and casualty services would remain operational. R. V. Asokan, the head of the group, told the BBC that although doctors have long suffered from and protested against vi0lence, this occurrence was “qualitatively different”.
According to him, “everywhere doctors are unsafe” if a crime of this nature can occur at a large metropolitan medical institution.
Earlier this week, doctors at a few government hospitals declared they were stopping elective treatments indefinitely.
