Doctors' Strike Gains Nationwide Traction
The New Indian Express|August 18, 2024
Protests get support from global associations as well HEALTHCARE services across the country were severely hit on Saturday as the doctors halted non-essential services in government, private and in some corporate hospitals on the Indian Medical Association (IMA)'s call for a 24-hour shutdown to protest the brutal rape and murder of a trainee doctor in a state-run hospital in Kolkata.
KAVITA BAJELI-DATT

As senior doctors also joined the strike, in many states, especially in gov ernment hospitals, medical services were paralysed entirely.

The nationwide demand by united modern medicine doctors for a central protection act to safeguard healthcare workers from violence forced the Centre to announce that they would constitute a committee to suggest measures for ensuring their safety.

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