{"id":70000,"date":"2024-08-17T14:52:20","date_gmt":"2024-08-17T14:52:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/indian-doctors-on-strike-over-rape-and-murder-of-colleague-bbc-news\/"},"modified":"2024-08-17T14:52:20","modified_gmt":"2024-08-17T14:52:20","slug":"indian-doctors-on-strike-over-rape-and-murder-of-colleague-bbc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/indian-doctors-on-strike-over-rape-and-murder-of-colleague-bbc-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian doctors on strike over rape and murder of colleague | BBC News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Doctors in India have begun a national strike, escalating the protest against the rape and murder of a female colleague <!--more--> in the West Bengal city of Kolkata.<\/p>\n<p>The Indian Medical Association (IMA), the country&#8217;s largest grouping of doctors, said all non-essential hospital services would be shut down across the country on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The IMA described last week&#8217;s killing as a &#8220;crime of barbaric scale due to the lack of safe spaces for women&#8221; and asked for the country&#8217;s support in its &#8220;struggle for justice&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, the IMA said emergency and casualty services would continue to run and that the strike would last for 24 hours.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe here: <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/1rbfUog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/1rbfUog<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For more news, analysis and features visit: www.bbc.com\/news <\/p>\n<p>#India #BBCNews<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Doctors in India have begun a national strike, escalating the protest against the rape and murder of a female colleague<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":70016,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70000\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}