Indian doctors angry after colleague’s murder, rape

We just want to be safe while we carry out our missionexplains Sapna Rani, a 27-year-old woman working in New Delhi, the capital of India, who participated in a 24-hour national strike organized by doctors.

The hospital is the last place we should worry about our safetyshe notes.

The murder of a 31-year-old doctor, whose bloodied body was found on August 9 in a public hospital in the eastern Indian city of Kolkata, has reignited outrage over Indian violence to do to women.

– 36 hour holiday –

At the usually popular Ram Manohar Lohia public hospital in New Delhi, Sapna Rani points out that the ratio of doctors to patients is so terrible that shifts often last 36 hours. .

Then there is no suitable place for restshe said, describing how some doctors relax on wheelchairs and stretchers.

The female doctor who was killed in Kolkata was found in the hospital’s seminar room, possibly resting during a 36-hour shift.

Hospital security officers routinely observe violent behavior among angry patients, forced to wait hours in long lines and in the heat.

The other day, an angry parent hit a child patientpoints out Gopal Bisht, security manager at Lady Hardinge Hospital in New Delhi.

On Saturday, the usual mass of patients was replaced by protest songs.

Female doctors held signs in front of hospitals and chanted slogans demanding justice, along with male colleagues.

– 90 rapes per day in 2022 –

The tragic nature of the attack reminded the nation of the horrific gang rape and murder of a young woman in 2012 on a bus in New Delhi.

Sexual violence is on the rise again in India. In 2022, there will be almost 90 rapes per day on average in this country of 1.4 billion inhabitants.

Indian citizens also demonstrated this week in several Indian cities, including Kolkata where a torchlight vigil was held at midnight.

Protesting Indian doctors aim to clarify matters systemic which penalizes excessive public medical services and threatens security medical staff.

Those employed in public hospitals note that violence against medical staff is so minor that people are no longer aware of it.

What happened in Kolkata was not an isolated incidentthinks Pankhuri Sharma, a 24-year-old female doctor in training. Violence and abuse are everyday occurrencesshe tells.

Akanksha Tyagi, a 27-year-old gynecologist, laments the need for it take the life of a doctor for people to answer.