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UP: Medical team on way to give medicines to COVID patient attacked
At least three government medical personnel, including two doctors, and their driver were injured after their car was attacked by a group of people when they had gone to a village here to give medicines to a COVID-19 patient, police said on Monday. The incident took place at Paswan Chowk village in Ballia on Sunday and according to a complaint lodged at the Bairia police station, the medical team s vehicle was surrounded by about 60 people and it was attacked, they said. The team had gone to the village to give Ghanshyam, a COVID-19 patient, his medicines and check on his home isolation, Additional Superintendent of Police Sanjay Yadav said.