All the women employees of the health department went on strike after the incident of torture on the trainee nurse at Champak Maidan, Udiyam Nagar.

* In the city of Ratnagiri, the abuse of a trainee nurse at Champak Maidan, Udiyam Nagar is reverberating in the entire district including Ratnagiri General Hospital and all the women employees of the health department have started a work stoppage expressing their anger. We work 24 hours a day. We have three shifts. In it we travel day and night. Are we safe if a fellow trainee nurse in our health sector is being abused? Health workers present here have warned that they will hold a strike until the accused is arrested and the co-ordination committee of health workers of the district meets immediately. We are not safe today, he asserted, and all the health workers and nurses expressed their anger in strong terms.