{"id":322511,"date":"2020-04-22T12:06:52","date_gmt":"2020-04-22T12:06:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=322511"},"modified":"2020-04-22T12:06:55","modified_gmt":"2020-04-22T12:06:55","slug":"upto-7-years-in-jail-for-attack-on-doctors-and-healthcare-staff-cabinet-approves-ordinance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/upto-7-years-in-jail-for-attack-on-doctors-and-healthcare-staff-cabinet-approves-ordinance\/","title":{"rendered":"Upto 7 years in jail for attack on doctors and healthcare staff, cabinet approves ordinance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/upto-7-years-in-jail-for-attack-on-doctors-and-healthcare-staff-cabinet-approves-ordinance\/prakash-ja\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-322512\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-322512 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/prakash-ja-300x220.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"563\" height=\"413\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/04\/prakash-ja-300x220.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/04\/prakash-ja-80x60.jpg 80w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/04\/prakash-ja-572x420.jpg 572w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/04\/prakash-ja.jpg 684w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 563px) 100vw, 563px\" \/><\/a>After incidents of several attacks on Doctors and healthcare staff across nation, the Union Cabinet on Wednesday\u00a0<span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">approved promulgation of Ordinance to amend the Epidemic Diseases Act, 1897 making acts of violence on healthcare service personnel as cognizable and non-bailable offence.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\" style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">Union Minister Prakash Javadekar in a press conference said, &#8220;Cabinet\u00a0approves promulgation of Ordinance to amend the Epidemic Diseases Act, 1897 making such acts of violence as cognizable and non-bailable offences and to provide compensation for injury to healthcare service personnel or for causing damage or loss to the property.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">&#8220;It carries imprisonment from 6 months to 7 years if anyone is found guilty.\u00a0Violators would also have to pay double the cost of damage of property,&#8221; said\u00a0<span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">Javadekar.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">The\u00a0Ordinance would help protect Healthcare service personnel and their living and working premises against violence.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">Earlier in the day, Union Minister for Home Affairs, Amit Shah and Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare, Dr. Harshvardhan interacted with doctors and senior representatives of the Indian Medical Association (IMA), through a video conference, in New Delhi.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">Allaying all concerns of the medical fraternity regarding their security in the fight against Coronavirus, the Home Minister has assured them that the government would leave no stone unturned in ensuring their well being and security.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">Considering the immediate response from the Union government, the IMA has withdrawn the proposed protest to maintain the fight against COVID-19 in an uninterrupted manner.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After incidents of several attacks on Doctors and healthcare staff across nation, the Union Cabinet on Wednesday\u00a0approved promulgation of Ordinance to amend the Epidemic Diseases Act, 1897 making acts of violence on healthcare service personnel as cognizable and non-bailable offence. Union Minister Prakash Javadekar in a press conference said, &#8220;Cabinet\u00a0approves promulgation of Ordinance to amend [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":322512,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[12750,12860,485,4477],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322511"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=322511"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":322514,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322511\/revisions\/322514"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/322512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}