Supreme Court sets up doctors’ panel on workplace safety after rape, murder
NEW DELHI, Aug 20 (Reuters) – India’s Supreme Court created a hospital safety task force on Tuesday to recommend steps to ensure medical workers’ safety, days after the rape and murder of a trainee doctor caused national outrage and protests by junior doctors. The attack on Aug. 9 in the eastern city of Kolkata has triggered demands for justice for the victim and greater safety for women at hospitals, with doctors in several places refusing to see non-emergency patients. A police volunteer has been arrested for the crime and the federal police have taken over the investigation. The public anger