Ciudad Juarez , Mexico ( CNN ) -- In one of Mexico 's most violent cities , it was a startling scene : clinics closed , with no doctors to treat patients . Doctors in Ciudad Juarez , Mexico , said Monday that they would stop working for 24 hours to demand that the government do more to deal with the violence ravaging their city . `` Many of us have been asked to save the lives of burglars , extorters and kidnappers of our own colleagues . It 's outrageous that we are saving the lives of people that are attacking and killing us , and we are going to look for the legal means to avoid doing that , '' said Alejandro Flores , a member of the Citizens ' Committee of Ciudad Juarez Doctors . Banners hanging outside hospitals and clinics in Ciudad Juarez -- located across the border from El Paso , Texas -- read : `` Stop impunity . We demand justice . '' `` We know that patients have the right to healthcare , but nonetheless , we the doctors can not offer our services if we live trapped in our homes for fear of going out to work , if we are kidnapped , or even worse , if we lose our lives , killed with impunity , '' a statement from the doctors ' organization said . The statement noted the recent deaths of three colleagues -- one who died in a car bomb explosion , and two others who died after being kidnapped . The group also issued a list of demands that they asked authorities to meet within seven days , including releasing more information about an investigation into the recent killings of two doctors and bringing more federal agents to the city to investigate unsolved crimes . `` The doctors feel that there is no protection . There are no guarantees of security from the police or the government , '' attorney Angel de la Torre said . Journalists Arturo Chacon and Edgar Roman contributed to this report .
Doctors say they are increasingly the victims of violence . The U.S. government has been criticized for not doing enough to protect its citizens from terrorist attacks in Iraq and Afghanistan. A group demands that more federal agents investigate unsolved crimes . The protest occurs in Ciudad Juarez , across the border from El Paso , Texas .