{"id":66276,"date":"2024-08-17T15:03:01","date_gmt":"2024-08-17T06:03:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/aug\/17\/hospitals-in-india-hit-as-doctors-begin-nationwide-strike-over-trainees-and"},"modified":"2024-08-17T15:03:01","modified_gmt":"2024-08-17T06:03:01","slug":"hospitals-in-india-hit-as-doctors-begin-nationwide-strike-over-trainees-rape-and-murder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=66276","title":{"rendered":"Hospitals in India hit as doctors begin nationwide strike over trainee\u2019s rape and murder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Non-essential medical services paralysed as more than a million doctors expected to join 24-hour protest amid rising anger at violence against women<\/p>\n<p>Hospitals and clinics across India have begun turning away patients except for emergency cases as medical professionals started a 24-hour shutdown in protest against the rape and murder of a doctor in the eastern city of Kolkata.<\/p>\n<p>More than 1 million doctors were expected to join Saturday\u2019s strike, paralysing medical services across the world\u2019s most populous nation. Hospitals said faculty staff from medical colleges had been pressed into service for emergency cases.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/aug\/17\/hospitals-in-india-hit-as-doctors-begin-nationwide-strike-over-trainees-and\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Non-essential medical services paralysed as more than a million doctors expected to join 24-hour protest amid rising anger at violence against womenHospitals and clinics across India have begun turning away patients except for emergency cases as medica&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[62,61,2410],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-india","category-south-and-central-asia","category-violence-against-women-and-girls"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66276"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66277,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66276\/revisions\/66277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}