In Pics: Doctors across India protest against West Bengal assault

Protest in Bengal (Photo Credit: PTI)

The ongoing strike by the West Bengal doctors has sparked massive protests across India with major hospitals in various cities holding solidarity marches on Friday. It is to be noted that several medical bodies including the Indian Medical Association (IMA) had called doctors' strike across the country to protest over rising violence against the medical fraternity after a junior doctor of Nil Ratan Sarkar (NRS) Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata was allegedly attacked by the relative of a patient who died on June 10. (Photo Credit: PTI)

Doctors protest in Ranchi (Photo Credit: PTI)

Ranchi: Members of doctors Association showed a solidarity and staged a protest against assault of an intern doctor in West Bengal. (Photo Credit: PTI)

Doctors Protest in Delhi (Photo Credit: PTI)

Members of Resident Doctors Association (RDA) of AIIMS wearing bandages on their heads protest to show solidarity with their counterparts in West Bengal, who went on strike protesting against an assault of their colleagues. (Photo Credit: PTI)

Doctors Protest in Bengaluru (Photo Credit: PTI)

Medical students raise slogans during a demonstration protest to show solidarity with their counterparts against the assault in Kolkata. (Photo Credit: PTI)

Doctors protest in Nagpur (Photo Credit: PTI)

Members of Maharashtra Association of Resident Doctors (MARD) from Government Medical College and Hospital during a protest to show solidarity with their counterparts in West Bengal, who stopped working on Tuesday protesting against the assault on their colleagues. (Photo Credit: PTI)

Doctors protest in Guwahati (Photo Credit: PTI)

Medical student hold placards showing solidarity with the intern doctor who was assaulted in West Bengal at Guwahati Medical College. (Photo Credit: PTI)