Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan has called an emergency meeting of top officials at the Government Secretariat on Thursday afternoon to weigh measures, including a potent new law, to guarantee the security of public-funded and private hospitals.
The top-level conference comes barely a day after the workplace murder of young house surgeon Vandana Das at Kottakara government taluk hospital early Wednesday.
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