Locals Pelt Stones At Healthcare Workers, Police On COVID Duty In UP; Doctors Injured
A team of medical personnel and police traveling in an ambulance was pelted with stones when they had gone to escort family members of a person who died of COVID-19 in Uttar Pradeshs Moradabad. A crowd suddenly emerged and started pelting stones Some doctors are still there We are injured said the ambulance driver.
A team of medical personnel and police traveling in an ambulance was pelted with stones when they had gone to escort family members of a person who died of COVID-19 in Uttar Pradesh's Moradabad.
The ambulance was taking the family members to the quarantine facility.
"When our team boarded the ambulance a crowd suddenly emerged and started pelting stones. Some doctors are still there. We are injured," said the ambulance driver.
Sharing details regarding the incident, SSP Amit Pathak told news agency ANI, "A COVID-19 positive patient had passed away in Nagphani area. In this regard, the patient's first contact, his family members, were to be quarantined. A medical team and police team had visited here for the same."
Moradabad: Some people pelted stones at medical team&police which had gone to take a person possibly infected with #COVID."When our team boarded ambulance with patient,suddenly crowd emerged&started pelting stones.Some doctors are still there.We are injured,"says ambulance driver pic.twitter.com/Rpo5jDRuJY
¡ª ANI UP (@ANINewsUP) April 15, 2020
#WATCH Moradabad: Some people pelted stones at medical team&police personnel who had gone to take the family of a #COVID19 positive patient (who died recently), to take them to a quarantine facility. 3 people were injured including a doctor & pharmacist. pic.twitter.com/q4FTzV8Vqc
¡ª ANI UP (@ANINewsUP) April 15, 2020
Attack on doctor and policemen in Moradabad. Guess which community attacked them? pic.twitter.com/tSh2LS1BpQ
¡ª Mrs. Lucifer ? (@Ar_Shivangni) April 15, 2020
Attack on doctors and policemen in Moradabad, Uttar Pradesh.yesterday in LNJP New Delhi,last week in MP & Rajasthan.The Central Protection Act should be implimented ASAP. @drharshvardhan @ArvindKejriwal @priyankagandhi @myogiadityanath @DrSTHasan @BaldevAulakh @yadavakhilesh @ANI pic.twitter.com/LbnBsTr5ju
¡ª Dr Sanjeev Choudhary (@drsanjeevindian) April 15, 2020
He added, "When the family members came out, a crowd pelted stones. The ambulance and police vehicle got damaged. We are sending the family members to the quarantine centre. The situation is under control now. We will identify the people involved in this incident and strict action will be taken against them."
The SSP said that some members of the medical team have received injuries.
"This is a violation of Section 144 and Epidemic Diseases Act, Disaster Management Act. Action will be taken under the National Security Act also," Pathak said.
Tatpal Singh, a pharmacist who was present at the site of the incident said: "We received orders to shift family members of a person who died due to coronavirus to another place. Four police personnel also went there along with us.
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"The family members were ready to come with us. But locals arrived and refused to let the family members go. Later, they got into a verbal fight with the police and started pelting stones."
As the coronavirus stigma grows, in the national capital, two women resident doctors of Safdarjung Hospital were assaulted by a man for 'spreading' the virus.
Last month in Indore, a group of health workers who had gone for coronavirus testing were attacked.
