Epidemic Diseases Amendment Act 2020

Recently parliament passed the Epidemic Diseases Amendment Bill 2020 which aims at protecting healthcare workers fighting the Covid-19 disease outbreak in the country by criminalising attacks on medical workers, resulting into imprisonment for up to five years.

  • The bill replaces the ordinance issued by the government in April 2020 for the same.

Epidemic Diseases (Amendment) Act, 2020

  • It amendsthe Epidemic Diseases Act, 1897 which protects healthcare service personnel and property, including their living and working premises against violence during epidemics.
  • Any healthcare worker who has suffered damage to their property such as clinical establishment, any facility for quarantine and isolations of patients, ....
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