Doctors in India strike over violent attacks by patients' families.

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Nationwide walkout prompted by vicious assault on junior doctor at Kolkata hospital.

Doctors protest outside a public hospital in Agartala. Photograph: Jayanta Dey/Reuters
▼ About 800,000 doctors across Indiawent on strike on Monday to demand better working conditions, following years of complaints about violent attacks from patients’ families.
A brutal assault on a junior doctor in Kolkata, the capital of West Bengal, appears to have been the final straw. Paribaha Mukhopadhyay was walking down a corridor at NRS hospital with a colleague when a group of men attacked them.
Neither doctor had been involved in treating Mohammed Sayeed, 75, who died at the hospital on 10 June, but his outraged relatives attacked the first doctors they saw, turning the hospital briefly into a battleground, according to witnesses of the assault
Mukhopadhyay suffered a fractured skull and needed a craniotomy.
Doctors at different hospitals have gradually been joining the strike out of solidarity, and on Monday almost all the country’s doctors walked out to demand better protection.
“The events in Kolkata were just a flashpoint. This has gone on for too long. We have a right to security as ordinary citizens.  (▪ ▪ ▪)

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It should be a balanced act. Doctors should treat patients with proper treatment. At the same time, Patients must not resort to violent acts.
A through investigation must be done in such cases where something wrong has happened.

This strike has impacted many hospitals (especially OPDs). Now that the talks are going on between doctors and state government, there are hopes of this conflict to end soon.