The gruesome incident in Kolkata on 9 August, when a young doctor was brutally raped and murdered, yet again highlights the violence that women face everywhere in our country. The Mumbai Regional Committee of the CGPI organised a meeting to discuss the gravity of the problem, the root cause and what should be done to change the situation.
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Discussion organised by the Mumbai Regional Committee of the Party:
Public hospitals are bearing the burden but government policy is oriented towards private hospitals and insurance companies
The present crisis has exposed the gross inadequacy of the public health system
It has exposed private hospitals as useless in the struggle against this virus
Yet the government pursues privatisation instead of investing in public health care