Coronavirus | 43 doctors die in Bengal in second wave Updated: Updated: Doctors’ body calls the figure ‘unacceptable and alarming’. Share Article AAA A health worker collecting a swab sample from a woman to test for the coronavirus at a primary health centre in Siliguri in West Bengal on May 24. | Photo Credit: AFP Doctors’ body calls the figure ‘unacceptable and alarming’. As many as 43 doctors have died till date in West Bengal since March 20, when the second wave of COVID-19 began to hit the State, according to a doctors’ body, which called the figure “unacceptable and alarming.” “Considering that about 105 doctors died between April and December 2020 during the first wave, the number of 43 in just two months is unacceptable and alarming. And we are not even counting the deaths of nurses and other healthcare workers,” said Dr. Koushik Chaki, a founding member of the West Bengal Doctors’ Forum (WBDF), calling for immediate vaccination of healthcare workers and also their family members.