{"id":250774,"date":"2020-04-01T18:44:42","date_gmt":"2020-04-01T22:44:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=250774"},"modified":"2020-04-01T18:44:42","modified_gmt":"2020-04-01T22:44:42","slug":"chr-to-probe-violent-acts-vs-health-workers-amid-covid-19-scare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/04\/01\/chr-to-probe-violent-acts-vs-health-workers-amid-covid-19-scare\/","title":{"rendered":"CHR to probe violent acts vs. health workers amid Covid-19 scare"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p><script async=\"1\" defer=\"1\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\" src=\"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&amp;version=v6.0\"><\/script><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-post\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/notes\/commission-on-human-rights-of-the-philippines\/statement-of-commissioner-karen-gomez-dumpit-on-violences-carried-out-against-he\/2711309915652203\/\" data-width=\"750\">\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/notes\/commission-on-human-rights-of-the-philippines\/statement-of-commissioner-karen-gomez-dumpit-on-violences-carried-out-against-he\/2711309915652203\/\" class=\"fb-xfbml-parse-ignore\"><p>Posted by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/chrgovph\/\">Commission on Human Rights of the Philippines<\/a> on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/notes\/commission-on-human-rights-of-the-philippines\/statement-of-commissioner-karen-gomez-dumpit-on-violences-carried-out-against-he\/2711309915652203\/\">Wednesday, April 1, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u2014The Commission on Human Rights (CHR) on Wednesday vowed to investigate cases of physical violence and discrimination against health workers and medical practitioners amid the 2019 coronavirus disease (Covid-19) pandemic scare.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, CHR Commissioner Karen Gomez-Dumpit said they are strongly condemning the acts of violence against healthcare front-liners of Covid-19.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As the country reels from the COVID-19 pandemic, such senseless acts do nothing but endanger the right to life of our health workers who most zealously guard the right to life and health of everyone,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>She cited a case wherein five unidentified assailants ganged up on a health worker and threw bleach at his face while on his way home from a private hospital in Tacurong City, Sultan Kudarat.<\/p>\n<p>She added that several health workers are also being unlawfully evicted from their rented residences by actively working in health facilities that are treating Covid-19 patients.<\/p>\n<p>She urged the public to be part of defending healthcare workers as they are only performing duties as allies of the government to fight against the dreaded virus.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We should move beyond hailing our frontline heroes online. We must show that we also care and protect them offline,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>The duty to protect the right to life, she said, requires the state to take special measures of protection to people in situations of vulnerability.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;CHR joins the clamor for justice and will investigate these assaults committed against our health workers,&#8221; she added.<\/p>\n<p>The health workers, she said, whose lives are at stake against violence\u2014must be protected.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Posted by Commission on Human Rights of the Philippines on&nbsp;Wednesday, April 1, 2020 &nbsp; MANILA\u2014The Commission on Human Rights (CHR) &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":250775,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-250774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-lade-jean-kabagani","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=250774"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":250776,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250774\/revisions\/250776"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/250775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}