The Directorate General of Health Services issued a memorandum as a measure to doctors’ security stating that the head of the institution would be responsible in lodging “Institutional FIR” within maximum 6 hours of the incident. The notice mentions before about the recent violence prevalent upon doctors and healthcare staffs in Government run hospitals: they suffer either in physical intolerance or verbal aggression. Most of these threatenings are faced from patients or patient parties.

The following steps excavate as a result of the ongoing protest of doctors’ fraternity after the dreadful incident of rape-murder of Kolkata’s PG trainee. IMA calls for a 24 hours service withdrawal in non-emergency departments on 17^Th August nationwide. This turns out that routine OPD and elective surgeries are not to be performed for a whole by doctors.