Over two thousand of doctors have gone on strike in Mumbai to protest against violence in hospitals, after three medics were attacked on wards in the last week.
The protests started after an attack on a junior doctor who was beaten by relatives of a patient on Sunday evening.
News of the assault spread through social media and prompted India’s medical community to take action.
On Monday morning, hospitals were in chaos as hundreds of junior doctors failed to turn up for work, forcing senior doctors to turn away queues of patients.
At a central sports field in Mumbai, hundreds of doctors from around the city gathered holding picket signs that read “Save the saviours” chanting “we want safety”.
Doctors are demanding that the government improves the quality of security at hospitals by increasing the numbers of guards and restricting the number of relatives allowed to visit a patient in the ward.
With no resolution in sight the strike is thought to continue into next week.
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