{"id":13982,"date":"2021-01-22T00:52:10","date_gmt":"2021-01-21T19:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/?p=13982"},"modified":"2021-01-22T00:52:10","modified_gmt":"2021-01-21T19:52:10","slug":"mongolian-pm-khurelsukh-ukhnaa-resigns-after-protests-over-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/2021\/01\/22\/mongolian-pm-khurelsukh-ukhnaa-resigns-after-protests-over-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"#Mongolian PM Khurelsukh Ukhnaa Resigns after Protests over Covid-19"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mongolia: (News Pulse \/Monitoring desk) <\/strong>Mongolia\u2019s Prime Minister Khurelsukh Ukhnaa resigned Thursday following protests and public outrage over the treatment of a coronavirus patient and her newborn baby.<\/p>\n

According to Mongolian Media that Landlocked Mongolia reported just a handful of Covid-19 cases last year after imposing strict border controls, but in November its first domestic transmissions caused a new wave of lockdowns and restrictions.<\/p>\n

Anger mounted this week after TV footage showed a woman who appeared to have recently given birth being moved to an infectious disease Centre wearing only hospital Pyjamas and plastic slippers, despite temperatures dipping to minus 25 degrees Celsius.<\/p>\n

After protests outside government buildings on Wednesday, the Mongolian politician apologized on behalf of the government and said he would stand down immediately.<\/p>\n

“Unfortunately, we made mistake during relocating that mother,” admitted Prime Minister Khurelsukh Ukhnaa Thursday. “It was heartbreaking to see how she was treated.”<\/p>\n

“As a prime minister, I must take the responsibility.”<\/p>\n

The video of the woman in an ambulance clutching her baby prompted fierce criticism; particularly as Mongolian tradition dictates new mothers should avoid the cold weather and cold food for the first month after birth.<\/p>\n

On Wednesday around 5,000 mostly young protesters gathered in a square opposite the government building in the capital Ulaanbaatar, some carrying wrapped up bundles to represent babies.<\/p>\n

Ulziibayar Purevsuren, 30, held a banner reading “resign” and said she was there to complain about “incompetent doctors”.<\/p>\n

The vice prime minister — also head of the national emergency commission handling the pandemic — had already resigned on Wednesday evening, followed by the minister of health.<\/p>\n

Remembered here that The head of the hospital and disease Centre in the middle of the row also resigned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mongolia: (News Pulse \/Monitoring desk) Mongolia\u2019s Prime Minister Khurelsukh Ukhnaa resigned Thursday following protests and public outrage over the treatment of a coronavirus patient and her newborn baby. According to Mongolian Media that Landlocked Mongolia reported just a handful of Covid-19 cases last year after imposing strict border controls, but in November its first domestic […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13983,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2297,2309,2299],"tags":[2662,2661],"class_list":["post-13982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-politics","category-world","tag-khurelsukh-ukhnaa","tag-mongolias-prime-minister"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13982"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13982\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13984,"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13982\/revisions\/13984"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}