India protests: Doctors call for shutdown of services

More than 1 million doctors were expected to join the strike, paralyzing medical services across the world's most-populous nation.

OPD services were disrupted nationwide as doctors joined the 24-hour strike called by the Indian Medical Association (IMA) in protest of the alleged rape and murder of a postgraduate trainee doctor at RG Kar Medical College in Kolkata on August 9.

The discovery of the 31-year-old doctor’s bloodied body at a state-run hospital in Kolkata, the capital of the eastern state of West Bengal, on August 9 led to furious protests in several cities across the country.

Resident doctors' strike continues in protest of the Kolkata rape-murder case, with no resolution in sight.