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India’s top court creates safety task force after rape, murder of doctor

A woman walks past a closed gate of the RG Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata, India [Sahiba Chawdhary/Reuters]

India’s Supreme Court has set up a national task force of doctors to make recommendations on workplace safety following the rape and murder of a trainee medic at a state hospital that prompted nationwide protests.

The court, which took up the case on its own, said on Tuesday that the doctors’ panel was being established to frame guidelines for the safety and protection of medical workers across the country.

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