Indian doctors call for nationwide shutdown of services after colleague's rape and murder

An association of Indian doctors called for more than a million colleagues nationwide to provide only essential services on Saturday, August 17, in a protest over the brutal rape and murder of a medic that is set to be the biggest such strike in recent times. Anger over the crime showed no signs of dying down a week after the 31-year-old doctor was found dead on a blood-soaked mattress in the medical college where she worked in the eastern city of Kolkata.

Indian doctors call for nationwide shutdown of services after colleague's rape and murder
An association of Indian doctors called for more than a million colleagues nationwide to provide only essential services on Saturday, August 17, in a protest over the brutal rape and murder of a medic that is set to be the biggest such strike in recent times. Anger over the crime showed no signs of dying down a week after the 31-year-old doctor was found dead on a blood-soaked mattress in the medical college where she worked in the eastern city of Kolkata.

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