THE army carried out at least 252 attacks and threats against health workers since a Feb 1 coup, killing at least 25 medics and hampering the response to a resurgent outbreak of Covid-19, a report by rights groups said.
More than 190 health workers have been arrested and 86 raids on hospitals carried out since the coup, said the report by Insecurity Insight, Physicians for Human Rights (PHR), and Johns Hopkins University Center for Public Health and Human Rights (CPHHR).
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