Doctors, Cops Escorting Possible COVID-19 Patient Attacked In Moradabad, UP

[Mirage]

• Mob threw stones at doctors, attacked ambulance in Moradabad
• Police team escorting doctors, paramedics, ambulance also attacked
• Yogi Adityanath assured action in the case under National Security Act

Moradabad: 

A team of doctors and other medical staff were attacked by the locals in Moradabad, a town in western Uttar Pradesh, when they went there to take primary contacts of a COVID-19 patient who died, to a quarantine facility. A police team escorting the doctors was also attacked. Some policemen and a doctor have been injured but no one has serious injuries. 

Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, who has ordered the invocation of the stringent National Security Act in such cases, said action will be taken against the accused under it. Any loss to public property will also be recovered from them, he said.

[Mirage]

Visuals from the Nawab Pura colony, located in the central part of the city, showed smashed police jeeps and a road littered with stones and bricks.

Amit Pathak, a senior police officer in Moradabad, said a COVID-19 patient had died in the area and the doctors were trying to quarantine his immediate contacts. 

"A medical and police team came here. When the family members were boarding ambulances, a crowd of around 150 people came and started throwing stones. A police car and ambulance are damaged. We will identify the culprits and act against them," the officer added. 

"When our team boarded the ambulance with the patient, a crowd emerged and started throwing stones. Some doctors are still there. We are injured," the driver of the ambulance that came under attack, was quoted as saying by news agency ANI. 

[Mirage]

So from what I came to know the doctor is seriously injured. 

[DaatarBabu]

Moradabad: Health Officials Who Went To Take Brother Of Coronavirus Victim For Quarantine Attacked, Ambulance Stoned

Muslims offering Friday prayers (representative image) (Photo by - Himanshu Vyas/Hindustan Times via Getty Images)

A team of health workers and police was attacked in Haji Neb Masjid area of Moradabad on Wednesday when they went to pick up a coronavirus patient and his family.

The incident in which several police and health workers were injured took place in Nawabpura area of Moradabad. The ambulance and four other vehicles were also damaged in the stone pelting.

According to reports, a man named Sartaj had been unwell and was admitted to the medical college in the Tirthankar Mahavir University. His samples were sent for testing on April 9 and the report that came on April 13 found him to be corona positive. Sartaj died the same night. The area was declared a hotspot after he succumbed to coronavirus on April 13.

Some members of his family were quarantined at the IFTM University.

The health and police team, on Wednesday, went to their house to take Sartaj''s younger brother who had been suffering from fever for institutional quarantine.

As soon as the team reached the area, people started coming out of their houses and collecting at the spot. They tried to prevent the remaining family members from being taken for quarantine.

The health team tried to explain to the crowds but the local people became aggressive and started pelting stones.

“The miscreants illegally confined doctor H.C. Mishra while a technician was seriously injured. The PPE suits of the team members were torn off. The four policemen who went with the team had to retreat. One of them was injured,” the official was quoted as saying.

ADG (Law and order) P.V. Ramasastry said in Lucknow that the situation was under control and efforts were on to identify the miscreants. "We will take very strict action against those involved in this incident," he said.

Ippudu Matram ee news LK gaallaki vunnadi vunnattu rayadaniki grudda noppi vastadi... Peacefuls Ani direct ga analeka... 

[Mirage]

@DaatarBabu  ivantha isolated random incidents.. idantha fake news ani government clarity ichindi ani @TrollBait will come and all

[Android_Halwa]

2 hours ago, Mirage said:

So from what I came to know the doctor is seriously injured. 

Yeah, Doctor has been severely injured...head injury ayindi.

Authorities were very quick in taking action against such people. Almost 25 people including women have been arrested and NSA cases are to be slapped against them, and damages to the property are to be recovered.

[AasaDosa]

aa Namaz lo okkadiki Covid unna chaalu easy ga spread aipotundi

[Mirage]

43 minutes ago, Android_Halwa said:

Yeah, Doctor has been severely injured...head injury ayindi.

Authorities were very quick in taking action against such people. Almost 25 people including women have been arrested and NSA cases are to be slapped against them, and damages to the property are to be recovered.

Yeah..