The IMA described last week's killing as a "crime of barbaric scale due to the lack of safe spaces for women" and asked for the country's support in its "struggle for justice".
Protests against the attack and calling for the better protection of women have intensified in recent days after a mob vandalised the hospital where it happened.
Protests against the attack and calling for the better protection of women have intensified in recent days after a mob vandalised the hospital where it happened.
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00:00Doctors in India have held a national strike, escalating the protest against the rape and
00:05murder of a female colleague in the West Bengal city of Kolkata.
00:10More than a million were expected to join the strikes, as hospitals and clinics across
00:15the country turned away non-emergency patients.
00:19The IMA described last week's killing as a crime of barbaric scale due to the lack
00:23of safe spaces for women and asked for the country's support in its
00:28struggle for justice.
00:30Protests against the attack and calling for the better protection of women have intensified
00:35in recent days after a mob vandalised the hospital where it happened.
00:40In a statement, the IMA said emergency and casualty services would continue to run.
00:46The strike ended at 6 o'clock local time on Sunday, 030 Greenwich Mean Time.
00:52The association's president, R. V. Ashokan, told the BBC doctors have been suffering and
00:58protesting against violence for years but that this incident was qualitatively different.
01:05If such a crime can happen in a medical college in a major city, it shows everywhere doctors
01:11are unsafe, he said.
01:14Doctors at some government hospitals announced earlier this week that they were indefinitely
01:18halting elective procedures.
01:21India protests intensify over doctors' rape and murder.
01:25Raped Indian do.