{"id":295317,"date":"2017-07-18T14:30:00","date_gmt":"2017-07-18T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ifp.co.in\/item\/2000-rims-counter-officials-try-to-attack-journalists"},"modified":"2017-07-18T14:30:00","modified_gmt":"2017-07-18T18:30:00","slug":"rims-counter-officials-try-to-attack-journalists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/2017\/07\/18\/rims-counter-officials-try-to-attack-journalists\/","title":{"rendered":"RIMS counter officials try to attack journalists"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"K2FeedIntroText\">\n<p>By A Staff Reporter<\/p>\n<p>IMPHAL | July 18<\/p>\n<p>Officials of RIMS, OPD counter tried to attack journalists today when a team of journalists visited the counter to inquire about alleged collection of money from patient parties for medical tests.<\/p>\n<p>They allegedly tried to attack the journalists when the former tried to capture the photo of the counter.<\/p>\n<p>The journalists came to RIMS after getting an information that the counter is taking money for medical tests which is to be done free of cost.<\/p>\n<p>The new government as a part of their 100 days programme announced that 57 different medical tests will be done free of cost in JNIMS and RIMS.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTaking advantage of not having separate counters for the free test facilities, the counter continued to take money from patients for medical tests which are to be done free,\u201d claimed a patient party.<\/p>\n<p>The journalists tried to meet the medical superintendent on the issue but they could not do so.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">Read more \/ Original news source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ifp.co.in\/item\/2000-rims-counter-officials-try-to-attack-journalists\">http:\/\/www.ifp.co.in\/item\/2000-rims-counter-officials-try-to-attack-journalists<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>By A Staff Reporter<\/p>\n<p>IMPHAL | July 18<\/p>\n<p>Officials of RIMS, OPD counter tried to attack journalists today when a team of journalists visited the counter to inquire about alleged collection of money from patient parties for medical tests.<\/p>\n<p>They allegedly tried to attack the journalists when the former tried to capture the photo of the counter.<\/p>\n<p>The journalists came to RIMS after getting an information that the counter is taking money for medical tests which is to be done free of cost.<\/p>\n<p>The new government as a part of their 100 days programme announced that 57 different medical tests will be done free of cost in JNIMS and RIMS.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Taking advantage of not having separate counters for the free test facilities, the counter continued to take money from patients for medical tests which are to be done free,&rdquo; claimed a patient party.<\/p>\n<p>The journalists tried to meet the medical superintendent on the issue but they could not do so.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15434,4],"tags":[2733,15447],"class_list":["post-295317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ifp","category-news","tag-ifp","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=295317"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":295320,"href":"https:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295317\/revisions\/295320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}