Kolkata medico's rape-murder: Pvt doctors, hospitals in Maharashtra join stir
Kolkata medico's rape-murder: Pvt doctors, hospitals in Maharashtra join stir
MUMBAI: Maharashtra resident doctors' indefinite strike over the rape and murder of a post-graduate trainee at a government hospital in Kolkata entered the fifth day on Saturday, with private medical practitioners also joining the stir, affecting healthcare services in the state.
According to the Maharashtra Association of Resident Doctors, elective services such as outpatient departments, planned surgeries and lab procedures were hit due to the protest, but emergency services were attended to.
Resident doctors in the state began an indefinite strike on Tuesday to express solidarity with the nationwide agitation against the rape-murder of a post-graduate trainee in Kolkata's RG Kar Medical College and Hospital on August 9.
