Physicians in India to Go on an Indefinite Strike in Response to Kolkata Murder

To express their outrage over the horrific rape and murder of a trainee physician at Kolkata's RG Kar Hospital, doctors from several hospitals throughout India have declared an indefinite strike. Physicians in Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, and a few other cities have stated that they will suspend all elective procedures until the case is fully investigated. In addition, the demonstrators want proper security for all medical personnel.

The news was made a few days after a postgraduate trainee physician at Kolkata's RG Kar Medical College was sexually assaulted and murdered while performing her duties. The 32-year-old woman's body was discovered on Thursday night in the seminar hall of the capital's government-run hospital in West Bengal. The victim was bleeding from her mouth, eyes, and private areas, according to the first autopsy report. Her lips, ring finger, right hand, left leg, and neck were also injured.

Vineet Goyal, the commissioner of city police, visited the medical establishment on Sunday for the second time in three days and met with representatives of protesting junior doctors. He insisted that the investigation was "transparent" and asked that people refrain from circulating rumours. In this case, police have taken into custody a community volunteer who used to visit the RG Kar Medical College and Hospital but is not connected to it. According to a police officer looking into the matter, Sanjoy Roy went back to his place and went to bed before washing his clothes the following morning in an attempt to destroy evidence.