Incident Reports

Health worker abuses and assaults corona infected person in an isolation center in Hetauda

2020-08-15

Bagmati, Makawanpur, Hetauda, Ward 6

Some health workers working at the Corona Isolation in Hetauda Sub-Metropolitan City Ward-6 have been found to be behaving indecently with the corona infected people.

A woman health worker working in the isolation ward mistreated a patient in mid-thirty. The health worker struck the woman in her forehead when asked for a bar of soap and for not addressing the health worker as 'sister'. She also told the woman very rudely that she might not even get a little food that she has been getting recently.

The incident became public after a journalist who had gone there to cover the isolation ward eye-witnessed the incident.


Details and Impacts
Violent / Non-violent Violent
Onesided / Twosided Onesided
Collective / Interpersonal Interpersonal
Primary Form Assault (small group)
Weapons None
Primary Cause Issues related to the quality of public services (health, education etc.)and access to these services
Secondary Cause Quarantine Management
Actor 1 - Number of people 1
Actor 1 - Affiliations Health sector/health workers, doctors
Actor 1 - Youth na
Actor 2 - Number of people 1
Actor 2 - Affiliation (Target) Citizen/Individuals
Actor 2 - Youth noyouth
National/Online Media

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