The ordinance will protect the entire healthcare fraternity, including medical professionals, nurses and ASHA employees.|Photo Credit:
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Union Cabinet authorizes promulgation of ordinance.
The Union Cabinet on Wednesday authorized the promulgation of an ordinance to amend the Epidemic Diseases Act, 1897, making acts of violence versus medical personnel a cognizable and non-bailable offense and to offer payment for injury to health care workers or for damage or loss to property.
The regulation proposes that in cases of attacks on health care worke