Kolkata doctor rape murder case: Doctors go on a 24-hour nationwide strike across the country protesting the brutal rape and murder of a trainee doctor

Indian Medical Association begins 24-hour closure of several services from 6 a.m. on today

The IMA said that the Kolkata incident has brought to fore the two dimensions of violence in the hospital – one, a crime of barbaric scale due to the lack of safe spaces for women and the other, the hooliganism that followed due to the lack of an organised security protocol.

The IMA said that a reluctance to acknowledge the violence on doctors and hospitals has to change at the policy level. In a list of demands submitted to the Central government, doctors have sought that security protocols of all hospitals should be no less than an airport and that healthcare centres should be declared as safe zones with mandatory security arrangements, including CCTVs and deployment of personnel.