NEW DELHI—Hundreds of doctors protested near India’s health ministry on Monday as they demanded stringent laws to protect health care workers from violence and sought justice for their colleague who was raped and killed at a state-run hospital.
Doctors and paramedics protesting against the rape and killing of a trainee doctor at a government hospital in Kolkata gather in front of the Indian health minister’s office, in New Delhi, India on Monday, Aug. 19, 2024.
Doctors and medics across India have held protests, candlelight marches and temporarily refused to see non-emergency patients after the rape and killing of the 31-year-old trainee doctor on August 9 in the eastern city of Kolkata, the capital of West Bengal state. The government has asked doctors to return to duty and said it will set up a committee to look into their demands.
A police volunteer working at the hospital has been arrested and charged with the crime, but the family of the victim alleges it was a gang rape and more people were involved. Federal investigators are handling the case.
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