Will withdraw duty-hour curbs on women, WB says after SC rap | India News – Times of India
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Tuesday took exception to the gender-discriminatory circular of the West Bengal health department, issued 10 days after a woman doctor's rape-murder on Aug 9 night at the RG Kar Hospital, advising hospitals to limit women doctors' duty to 12 hours and avoid assigning them night duties.A bench of CJI D Y Chandrachud and Justices J B Pardiwala and Manoj Misra asked senior advocate Kapil Sibal, who appeared for the West Bengal govt, how a state could impose such restrictions on women doctors when women as pilots and as part of the armed forces are doing duties in the night."How can you discriminate against women, and suggest to govt medical colleges and hospitals to assign only 12-hour duty to women doctors, when their male counterparts would be doing 36 hours of c...