West Bengal: Junior doctors threaten to resume protests after attack on medics

The junior doctors who were protesting against the rape and murder of their colleague in West Bengal have threatened to resume their demonstration after a mob allegedly attacked medics at a state-run hospital, reported The Times of India on Sunday.

On Friday, relatives of a woman admitted to the College of Medicine and Sagore Dutta Hospital in North 24 Parganas allegedly assaulted on-duty doctors and hospital staff after she died, according to The Hindu.

“They threw utensils at us, they dragged doctors by their hands, and manhandled female staff,” a junior doctor at the Sagore Dutta Hospital was quoted as having said. “Women doctors had to flee and lock themselves in a room to escape.”