(19 Aug 2024)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
New Delhi – 19 August 2024
1. Various of protesters carrying banners shouting slogans
2. Banner reading (English) "SDN hospital, Delhi condemns rape and murder in RG KAR medical college"
3. Close of protesters chanting
4. Banner reading (English) "We demand justice for Moumita"
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. Daisy Singh, medical professional:
“If a lady is not safe at a workplace that, too a hospital which is considered next to a temple, and if a lady doctor who has given 10 to 12 years of her life to reach at a position where she is right now, then I wonder which lady in this country is safe?"
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. Babita Chhetri, medical professional:
“It is a very disturbing incident that has happened and it has really impacted us in a bad way. We are very scared to work now. We are scared to run from one part of the hospital to another and we don’t know how it is going to work in future.”
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Mumbai – 19 August 2024
7. Various of protesters gathered, shouting slogans, carrying placards, including one banner reading (English) "Stop violence against women" and another (English) "Who will speak for her if you don’t?"
8. Various of protesters offering flowers in tribute to victim, reading (Hindi) "We salute you sister; we promise our protest will not be incomplete."
STORYLINE:
Hundreds of doctors protested near India’s Health Ministry on Monday to demand stringent laws to protect health care workers from violence and to seek justice for their colleague who was raped and killed at a state-run hospital.
"We are very scared to work now. We are scared to run from one part of the hospital to another and we don’t know how it is going to work in future,” Dr. Babita Chhetri said.
Doctors and medics across India have held protests, candlelight marches and temporarily refused care for non-emergency patients after the rape and killing of the 31-year-old trainee on Aug. 9 in the eastern city of Kolkata, the capital of West Bengal state.
The doctors say the assault highlights the vulnerability of health care workers in hospitals and medical campuses across India.
They are demanding stronger laws, including making any attack on on-duty medics an offense without the possibility of bail, increase in security at hospitals and safe spaces for them to rest.
“If a lady is not safe at a workplace, at a hospital … then I wonder which lady in this country is safe?" said Daisy Singh, a protesting doctor.
The government has asked the doctors to return to work and said it will set up a committee to look into their demands.
The rape and killing of the trainee doctor at Kolkata city’s R.G. Kar Medical College and Hospital has also focused rage on the chronic issue of violence against women.
A police volunteer working at the hospital has been arrested and charged with the crime, but the family of the victim alleges it was a gang rape and more people were involved.
Federal investigators were handling the case.
That attack had inspired lawmakers to order harsher penalties for such crimes and set up fast-track courts dedicated to rape cases. The government also introduced the death penalty for repeat offenders.
Despite tougher legislation, sexual violence against women has remained a widespread problem in India.
In 2022, police recorded 31,516 reports of rape — a 20% jump from 2021, according to the National Crime Records Bureau.
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