India's top court sets up doctors' panel on workplace safety after rape, murder

Sakshi Dayal - Reuters - 20/08
India's Supreme Court created a national task force of doctors on Tuesday to recommend steps to ensure safety in their workplaces, days after a trainee doctor was raped and murdered at a hospital, sparking national outrage.
NEW DELHI, Aug 20 (Reuters) - India's Supreme Court created a national task force of doctors on Tuesday to recommend steps to ensure safety in their workplaces, days after a trainee doctor was raped and murdered at a hospital, sparking national outrage.
The attack on Aug. 9 in the eastern city of Kolkata has triggered nation-wide protests as people demand justice for the victim and greater safety for women at hospitals, with doctors at several places refusing to see non-emergency patients.
A police volunteer has been arrested for the crime and the federal police have taken over the investigation. The public anger and protests over violence against women is reminiscent of what followed the gang-rape and murder of a 23-year-old student on a bus in New Delhi in 2012.
The Supreme Court, which took up the case on its own, directed the federal police to submit a report on the status of its i...
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