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On August 17, local time, thousands of doctors appeared on the streets of New Delhi, India, and went on strike to protest a tragedy that occurred in Kolkata last week.

It was reported that not only in New Delhi, but hospitals across India went on strike on the 17th, stopping accepting patients except for emergency cases, and medical staff held a 24-hour strike ceremony.

More than a million doctors are expected to join the strike, paralyzing health services in the world's most populous country. Hospitals said medical school staff were being forced to help deal with emergencies.

On the morning of the 9th of this month, the body of a female intern was found in the seminar hall of the 138-year-old RG Kar Medical College in Kolkata. She was half naked and had severe scars.

The police said that the 31-year-old female intern was raped and brutally abused, and was eventually ruthlessly killed. The police then arrested a suspect named Sanjay Roy, who was a volunteer policeman at the hospital.

According to the latest news, the police are questioning Roy and are preparing to conduct a psychological evaluation on him. The victim's parents filed a lawsuit with the Calcutta High Court, requesting a court-supervised investigation. It is said that this is because Roy is a well-trained boxer who has established close relationships with some senior police officers over the years. In addition, this person has been married at least four times and is a notorious "lecher".

Protests broke out in Kolkata following the tragedy of the female trainee doctor, with tens of thousands of women in Kolkata and across West Bengal taking part in the "Take Back the Night" movement, demanding "independence, to live freely and without fear".

The event has now expanded to the whole country, with not only women participating, but also many male doctors. This tragic incident has once again triggered violence against doctors and nurses in India, with reports of doctors being beaten by patients and their families, both men and women, gaining widespread attention.

In India, women doctors make up nearly 30% of all physicians and 80% of nursing staff, and they are more vulnerable than their male colleagues.

A female doctor in Kolkata named Madhuparna Nandy talked about how difficult it was to work in a hospital. She was an obstetrician and gynecologist, but there was no lounge or separate toilet for female doctors. When she needed to rest in the hospital, she felt unsafe and had experienced thrilling moments when several men surrounded her.

Another female doctor, Namrata Mitra, insisted on taking her father with her during the night shift because she felt unsafe. "Although I would be laughed at, I was scared when I thought about the long and dark corridor," Mitra said, but she also admitted that there were not many female doctors who had such "privileges" as her, after all, her father was also a doctor.

The Indian government issued a statement after a meeting with representatives of medical associations, urging doctors to return to work and fulfill the public interest. The government will set up a committee to make recommendations to improve protection measures for medical staff.

In response, the Indian Medical Association also responded, saying that they were studying the government's proposal, but did not cancel the strike, which was originally scheduled to end at 6 a.m. local time on the 18th.

Although the doctors' strike was to seek justice, it also brought inconvenience to patients. Some people traveled a long way to the hospital, but they didn't know that the hospital was "closed". Not only did they have to continue to endure the pain, but they also wasted their travel expenses and time.