India’s Supreme Court threatened "adverse action" if striking physicians in the world’s most populous country do not return to work by Tuesday.
The legal order comes as thousands of health care providers have been involved in a month-long nationwide protest over the merciless rape and strangulation murder in August of a medical student while she was napping between shifts at the R. G. Kar Hospital in Kolkata.
Demonstrators have demanded that the government address what they say is a complete lack of security in Indian public hospitals that often results in acts of violence and harassment against caregivers.
The court’s decision also compelled officials in the state of West Bengal to ensure that the concerns of the complainants are being resolved.
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