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The rape and murder of a trainee doctor in RG Kar Medical College in Kolkata on August 9, 2024, was a brutal crime but had nothing to do with patients or violence by patients or their attendants against health workers. The accused is a civic volunteer who is said to have frequented the hospital as a tout, fleecing patients by promising to get them a bed or help them get tests done for free or at discounted rates [1]. However, following the incident, the protests by doctors, mostly resident doctors' associations across the country, zeroed in on protection for doctors and health workers from violence and attacks by patients through a central law as one of their main demands [2].
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Department of Doctor of Physiotherapy, Riphah International University, Islamabad, Pakistan.
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School of Medicine, University Hospital of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany.
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View Article and Find Full Text PDFA look back at the strike by Mozambican doctors in 2013: what can we learn?
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Global Health and Tropical Medicine, GHTM, LA-REAL, Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical, IHMT, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal.
Background: The occurrence of strikes in the health sector has been an increasing concern around the world, given their negative impact on the provision of services and care to patients. The Mozambican doctors' strike in 2013 2013 is considered by many to be the largest of a kind in the country's history, and marked the changes which are still a matter of debate. The aim of this study is to understand the causes, strategies and perceived impact of this strike from the perspective of the main actors involved, taking a look back at everything that happened, including the backstage and tense moments during the negotiations.
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Division of Perioperative, Acute, Critical Care and Emergency Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Cambridge, Level 4, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Hills Road, Cambridge, UK.
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- The D-PRISM study investigated global practices for diagnosing and treating pneumonia in ICU settings, focusing on community-acquired, hospital-acquired, and ventilator-associated pneumonia across different countries.
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