{"id":332198,"date":"2021-05-27T09:16:44","date_gmt":"2021-05-27T14:46:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=332198"},"modified":"2021-05-27T09:16:44","modified_gmt":"2021-05-27T14:46:44","slug":"healthcare-workers-attacked-in-ludhiana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/healthcare-workers-attacked-in-ludhiana\/","title":{"rendered":"Healthcare workers attacked in Ludhiana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-332199\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/ludhiana_5970741_835x547-m.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"835\" height=\"547\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2021\/05\/ludhiana_5970741_835x547-m.jpg 835w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2021\/05\/ludhiana_5970741_835x547-m-300x197.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2021\/05\/ludhiana_5970741_835x547-m-768x503.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2021\/05\/ludhiana_5970741_835x547-m-696x456.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2021\/05\/ludhiana_5970741_835x547-m-741x486.jpg 741w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2021\/05\/ludhiana_5970741_835x547-m-641x420.jpg 641w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 835px) 100vw, 835px\" \/>A team of the Punjab&#8217;s health department was allegedly attacked in Rachhin village on Thursday when it went there to inform villagers about COVID-19 testing, officials said.<br \/>\nA member of the team, identified as Suraaj Mohammed, a multipurpose health worker, sustained injuries on his forehead in the attack, they said, adding he was rushed to Community Health Centre in Pakhowal.<br \/>\nI was attacked with a brick by one villager named Jaspreet Singh when I was sensitising villagers to come forward for COVID-19 testing, &#8221; Mohammed told police.<br \/>\nLudhiana Deputy Commissioner Varinder Kumar Sharma said such incidents were unwarranted.<br \/>\nStrict action would be taken against those trying to derail the efforts of the government to contain the virus spread, he said.<br \/>\nA case has been registered against the accused, Deputy Superintendent of Police G S Bains said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; A team of the Punjab&#8217;s health department was allegedly attacked in Rachhin village on Thursday when it went there to inform villagers about COVID-19 testing, officials said. A member of the team, identified as Suraaj Mohammed, a multipurpose health worker, sustained injuries on his forehead in the attack, they said, adding he was rushed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":332199,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[56,36],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332198"}],"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\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=332198"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":332200,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332198\/revisions\/332200"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/332199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}