mo4ch:>WATCH police arrest Pakistani doctors during heated protest over lack of protective gear amid surge in Covid-19 | Mo4ch News

A group of Pakistani doctors clashed with police after taking to the streets to protest shortages of protective equipment for frontline healthcare workers fighting the coronavirus. The scuffles led to dozens arrests.Marching from Quetta’s Civil Hospital to the local chief minister’s office on Monday, members of the Young Doctors Association (YDA) came out in force to demand better protection for those treating Covid-19 patients. The medics were met by baton-wielding officers, however, who dispersed the intense street protest, which came just one day after some 13 doctors in the city tested positive for the illness.“Dozens” of arrests were made during the protest, Quetta’s Deputy Inspector General of Police Razzaq Cheema said, though denied that batons were used on any of the demonstrators, instead saying a “scuffle” broke out after some of the doctors tried to “cross barricades” outside of the chief minister’s office.Following Monday’s arrests, a local YDA head, Yasir Achakzai, said t…