Covid second wave: Why doctors are alarmed over attacks on medical staff
Covid second wave: Why doctors are alarmed over attacks on medical staff | India Today Insight
Medical association sends SOS to PMO over attacks even as efforts are on to rope in final year students of medicine and nursing to work at Covid hospitals
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UPDATED: May 3, 2021 23:08 IST
A doctors speaks with family members of a Covid patient outside the LNJP Hospital in New Delhi, April 26 (PTI Photo/Manvender Vashist)
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As the second wave of Covid-19 rips across the country, hospitals are overflowing with critically ill cases, and beds and medical oxygen are simply unavailable. The consequence: frayed tempers and a spate of attacks on medical professionals in Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra and even Goa. In New Delhi, on April 27, eight hospital staff including doctors and nurses were attacked by relatives of patients at Apollo Hospital. The incident happened after a patient who had not got