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[Global Network Report] A female intern doctor in India was brutally raped and murdered last week, sparking strong indignation among doctors and women's groups. Agence France-Presse and Reuters reported that Indian doctors held a "national strike" on the morning of the 17th local time. Hospitals and clinics across India began a 24-hour shutdown and would no longer accept patients except emergency patients.

Reuters said that more than one million doctors are expected to join the strike, which has "paralyzed" India's medical services.

According to a statement from the Indian Medical Association, the strike began at 6 a.m. During the strike, elective medical procedures and outpatient consultations were cut off.

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According to AFP, thousands of people held a candlelight vigil in Kolkata early Saturday morning. The report mentioned that one of the protesters held a sign that read: "The hands that heal (others) should not bleed."

A doctor at a private hospital in the city told Reuters he would not see patients unless it was an emergency.

According to Xinhua News Agency, the female intern who was killed was 31 years old and was found raped and murdered in a hospital in Kolkata, an eastern Indian city, on the 9th of this month. A hospital staff member said that the female doctor was assaulted while sleeping in a hall of the hospital. This vicious incident reminds people of the 2012 Indian bus gang rape and murder case that shocked the international community.

India's Business Today reported on the 14th that after an intern was raped and murdered in Kolkata, the capital of West Bengal, doctors in public hospitals in many places began to protest and strike. Kolkata police have arrested the suspect, Sanjay Roy.

The Hindustan Times reported that medical associations in many parts of India called on doctors in public hospitals to suspend medical services indefinitely on the 13th to urge the government to quickly hear the case. They also demanded the establishment of "a committee to protect the health of medical staff" and take measures to improve the safety of doctors, especially female doctors.

The website of India Today reported on the 13th that this incident was not "isolated". It reflects a disturbing fact that rape crime in India has not been fundamentally dealt with after the "Delhi bus gang rape case", and rape crime is still rampant in India.