Doctors' Strike at PGIMER Over Kolkata Trainee's Tragic Death

Medical services at the Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER) were partially shut as resident doctors extended their strike for a second day. This action follows the rape-murder of a trainee doctor in Kolkata. The doctors demand improved safety measures, and the Calcutta High Court has transferred the case to the CBI.

Medical services at the Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER) were partially shut on Tuesday as resident doctors continued their strike for the second day against the rape-murder of a trainee doctor in Kolkata.

The hospital's emergency services, however, remained operational.

''Our protest continues today,'' stated Dr. Perugu Praneeth Reddy, joint secretary of the Association of Resident Doctors, PGIMER.

The doctors are demanding better safety measures at hospitals.

On Tuesday, the Calcutta High Court ordered the transfer of the investigation into the alleged rape and death of the woman doctor to the CBI. The protest follows a nationwide indefinite strike call by the Federation of Resident Doctors' Association (FORDA) after the postgraduate trainee doctor was raped and murdered at the RG Kar Medical College while she was on duty last Thursday.

The semi-naked body of the 32-year-old woman was discovered in the seminar hall of the government-run hospital in Kolkata.

Since the junior doctors initiated the strike on Monday, PGIMER authorities announced that while emergency services would remain functional, outpatient department services would be limited to follow-up patients only.