PULWAMA — A medical team was attacked in south Kashmir’s Pulwama village after it went there to quarantine the family members of a positive patient. The incident occurred in Rahmoo village.
An 80-year-old man was the fresh positive case that surfaced in the village today. Already, an elderly man from the same village has died due to COVID-19 infection.
Sources said that a medical team from Rajpora arrived in Rahmoo village to quarantine the family members of the infected man, but it faced the wrath of same family members there.
“The family members mostly women pelted stones on the ambulance as a result of which the driver sustained head injuries and was rushed to hospital for treatment. The medical team fled from the village,” local sources said, adding that the irresponsible behavior on part of few embarrassed the whole village.
A man, part of the surveillance team, said that womenfolk confronted them and asked to stop this ‘COVID drama’.
Locals said that shortly after the incident, Naib Tehsildar rushed to the spot and persuaded the family members for quarantine.
While confirming the incident, Block Medical Officer, Rajpora said that the matter was brought into the notice of district administration. “After the intervention of Naib Tehsildar, the matter was resolved amicably,” he said and admitted that ambulance was damaged and the driver sustained head injury.
He appealed people to behave responsibly in this pandemic.
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very unfortunate all the people involved in this incident were released by police the FIR was hushed up. all the woman who carried out this incident including the gandleader woman is rooming free. she managed to bribe the police and get away.