Deadlock continues in India as striking doctors refuse to call off strike

Medical workers participate in a rally demanding adequate security in Kolkata, India, on June 14, 2019. The strike triggered Monday night after a junior doctor at the NRS Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata was allegedly assaulted by the relatives of a patient who had died. The doctor suffered a head injury and is in critical care at a private hospital. Following the incident, doctors went on strike, alleging police inaction and demanding action against the guilty, besides safety of doctors. The protesting junior doctors in India's eastern state of West Bengal have refused to end their strike until they are provided adequate security in the government-run hospitals, officials said Friday. (Xinhua/Tumpa Mondal)