Assam Doctors Strike

Doctors in Assam were on a 24-hour strike today to protest the assault on an elderly doctor at a tea garden that led to his death, officials said. Emergency services have been kept out of the purview of the stir.

Two days after the doctor of a tea estate in Assam was beaten to death by a mob of 250, 21 people have been arrested, the police said. The Indian Medical Association has called a strike, including withdrawal of emergency services, on Tuesday. The tea estate in Assam's Jorhat, 300 km from main city Guwahati, has been locked down for now by the manag...

A post graduate medical student of the Assam Medical College Hospital (AMCH) in Dibrugarh was killed inside an ICU allegedly by a ward boy triggering an indefinite strike by the junior doctors of the hospital, police said on Friday.

Doctors in Assam were on a 24-hour strike today to protest the assault on an elderly doctor at a tea garden that led to his death, officials said. Emergency services have been kept out of the purview of the stir.

Two days after the doctor of a tea estate in Assam was beaten to death by a mob of 250, 21 people have been arrested, the police said. The Indian Medical Association has called a strike, including withdrawal of emergency services, on Tuesday. The tea estate in Assam's Jorhat, 300 km from main city Guwahati, has been locked down for now by the manag...

A post graduate medical student of the Assam Medical College Hospital (AMCH) in Dibrugarh was killed inside an ICU allegedly by a ward boy triggering an indefinite strike by the junior doctors of the hospital, police said on Friday.