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00:00A heinous crime spurred a nationwide protest.
00:04For 24 hours, hundreds of thousands of doctors and nurses went on strike,
00:10demanding justice for a 31-year-old doctor
00:13who was raped and murdered at her place of work.
00:17She was found dead at a hospital in Calcutta
00:19after taking a nap during a 36-hour shift.
00:22There has to be a sensitisation that if you commit a crime,
00:25you will be punished accordingly.
00:27We cannot lose more doctors to mob violence,
00:30to such heinous crimes and acts.
00:32If a hospital is not safe, then what else can be?
00:36The shutdown began at 6am on Saturday and lasted until Sunday morning,
00:40after the Indian Medical Association called on non-essential workers to participate.
00:45It was one of the largest shutdowns of hospital services in recent memory,
00:50with only emergency cases being treated.
00:54Demonstrators were angry at authorities
00:57for their handling of the crime and for not creating safer workplaces.
01:03They also pointed to a broader social issue.
01:06They say that women, and doctors,
01:08are not treated with the dignity and respect they deserve.
01:12There's an anger that has been simmering for generations
01:15amongst doctors, amongst women, amongst all healthcare workers,
01:19and this rape has shaken our faith in the system.
01:23Security, security, security.
01:26We don't want protection, we want security.
01:30Sexual violence is a recurrent problem in India.
01:33Ten years ago, giant protests shook the country
01:37after the rape and murder of a 23-year-old woman in New Delhi.
01:41In 2022, an average of nearly 90 rapes were committed every day
01:46in the country of nearly 1.5 billion people.