Attack On Healthcare Workers

AIIMS Delhi was hit by a cyberattack two weeks ago, crippling the online services of Delhi's leading hospital, which resumed online registrations on Wednesday. The November 23 attack on AIIMS Delhi was followed by a series of failed attempts to hack the country's top medical research organisation, the Indian Council of Medical Research.

The Lok Sabha on Monday passed a legislation that provides for up to seven years in jail for those attacking healthcare workers fighting the coronavirus or during any situation akin to the current pandemic.

A doctor pelted with stones while screening residents of a locality in Indore earlier this month, on Thursday welcomed the ordinance to protect healthcare workers on the frontline of the fight against coronavirus from acts of violence.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi today said tougher punishment for attacks on health care workers on the frontlines of the coronavirus fight will "ensure the safety of our professionals" and manifested the government's commitment to protect "each and every healthcare worker".

With attacks increasing on healthcare workers amid the coronavirus pandemic, the government has brought in an ordinance to protect doctors. Attacks on health care workers have been made a non-bailable offence and will carry an imprisonment from six months to seven years, union minister Prakash Javadekar has announced.

The group who had attacked police and healthcare workers at the minority-dominated Padarayanapura in the city on Sunday night had raised slogans ''kill police'' when the team went to quarantine some people, the police alleged in an FIR.

To fight the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, it is important to stay united and have faith in each other, veteran lyricist-screenwriter Javed Akhtar said, expressing concerns over attacks on healthcare workers and medics.

A group of sanitation worker in Madhya Pradesh were attacked by a mob of locals in Dewas district on Friday when they went to a neighbourhood to clean the streets. One of them, who was attacked with an axe, has been admitted to hospital after his hand was badly injured. The shocking attack comes weeks after similar incidents in the state in which h...

Madhya Pradesh healthcare workers and civic officials were attacked by a mob of angry locals in Indore's Taat Patti Bakhal area on Wednesday, as they visited the area to screen residents for signs of novel coronavirus infection

Doctors at Hyderabad's Gandhi Hospital were allegedly attacked after a patient with multiple illnesses died of COVID-19 today. The 49-year-old man was critical and tested positive for coronavirus around a week ago. After his death, two of his family members blamed the doctors for it and allegedly attacked them.

AIIMS Delhi was hit by a cyberattack two weeks ago, crippling the online services of Delhi's leading hospital, which resumed online registrations on Wednesday. The November 23 attack on AIIMS Delhi was followed by a series of failed attempts to hack the country's top medical research organisation, the Indian Council of Medical Research.

The Lok Sabha on Monday passed a legislation that provides for up to seven years in jail for those attacking healthcare workers fighting the coronavirus or during any situation akin to the current pandemic.

A doctor pelted with stones while screening residents of a locality in Indore earlier this month, on Thursday welcomed the ordinance to protect healthcare workers on the frontline of the fight against coronavirus from acts of violence.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi today said tougher punishment for attacks on health care workers on the frontlines of the coronavirus fight will "ensure the safety of our professionals" and manifested the government's commitment to protect "each and every healthcare worker".

With attacks increasing on healthcare workers amid the coronavirus pandemic, the government has brought in an ordinance to protect doctors. Attacks on health care workers have been made a non-bailable offence and will carry an imprisonment from six months to seven years, union minister Prakash Javadekar has announced.

The group who had attacked police and healthcare workers at the minority-dominated Padarayanapura in the city on Sunday night had raised slogans ''kill police'' when the team went to quarantine some people, the police alleged in an FIR.

To fight the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, it is important to stay united and have faith in each other, veteran lyricist-screenwriter Javed Akhtar said, expressing concerns over attacks on healthcare workers and medics.

A group of sanitation worker in Madhya Pradesh were attacked by a mob of locals in Dewas district on Friday when they went to a neighbourhood to clean the streets. One of them, who was attacked with an axe, has been admitted to hospital after his hand was badly injured. The shocking attack comes weeks after similar incidents in the state in which h...

Madhya Pradesh healthcare workers and civic officials were attacked by a mob of angry locals in Indore's Taat Patti Bakhal area on Wednesday, as they visited the area to screen residents for signs of novel coronavirus infection

Doctors at Hyderabad's Gandhi Hospital were allegedly attacked after a patient with multiple illnesses died of COVID-19 today. The 49-year-old man was critical and tested positive for coronavirus around a week ago. After his death, two of his family members blamed the doctors for it and allegedly attacked them.