{"id":17006,"date":"2020-04-09T09:00:30","date_gmt":"2020-04-09T00:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/apr\/09\/pakistan-doctors-beaten-police-despair-untreatable-pandemic"},"modified":"2020-04-09T09:00:30","modified_gmt":"2020-04-09T00:00:30","slug":"pakistan-doctors-beaten-by-police-as-they-despair-of-untreatable-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=17006","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan doctors beaten by police as they despair of &#8216;untreatable&#8217; pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lack of equipment, dysfunctional government and conflicting messages are impeding country\u2019s efforts against virus<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/series\/coronavirus-live\/latest\">Coronavirus \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Doctors in Pakistan have warned of \u201cdeplorable\u201d conditions on the frontlines of the country\u2019s coronavirus outbreak, describing the pandemic as untreatable in one region and accusing police of brutally suppressing protests over working conditions.<\/p>\n<p>One doctor who took part in a sit-in on Monday to protest against a lack of personal protective equipment said he had been \u201cbeaten and humiliated\u201d by police.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/apr\/09\/pakistan-doctors-beaten-police-despair-untreatable-pandemic\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lack of equipment, dysfunctional government and conflicting messages are impeding country\u2019s efforts against virusCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageDoctors in Pakistan have warned of \u201cdeplorable\u201d conditions on the frontlines of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1202,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1069,346,841,359,914,60,299,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-health","category-hospitals","category-imran-khan","category-infectious-diseases","category-pakistan","category-science","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1202"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17006"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17006\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17007,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17006\/revisions\/17007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}