Healthcare professionals in Tamil Nadu are demanding better security measures after a doctor in Chennai was stabbed earlier this week; this comes just three months after the brutal rape and murder of a junior doctor in Kolkata
Chennai’s newest government health facility, the Kalaignar Centenary Super Speciality Hospital (KCSSH), stood witness to a brutal attack on one of its senior doctors on Wednesday, November 13, 2024, bringing to the spotlight, once again, the long-pending need to improve safety and security across hospital campuses.

The attack comes just three months after a 31-year-old woman resident junior doctor was raped and murdered at the RG Kar Medical College in Kolkata, an incident that led to nation-wide protests from the medical fraternity, even as it triggered agitations from multiple sections of society in West Bengal.