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Sensible suggestion from Dr Devi Shetty April 30, 2021, 11:53 PM IST Quick takes, analyses and macro-level views on all contemporary economic, financial and political events. In India’s fight against Covid-19, the focus has been on equipment, oxygen, medication and vaccines. The state of medical personnel — doctors, nurses and aides — has escaped focus, except for individual experts such as Dr Devi Prasad Shetty. Medical manpower is likely to be the next big crisis point in India’s fight against Covid-19. The government must put augmenting hea...

A number of doctors and nurses have contracted Covid despite being fully vaccinated against the disease, a trend that will only intensify the crisis in Covid management unless corrective measures are immediately taken. Public health experts and hospital officials said unless a pool of doctors from all fields is created, the crisis of medical personnel would be as severe as that of Covid beds. At all three hospitals of the AMRI group in Calcutta, about 70 healthcare personnel, including junior doctors and nurses, are down with Covid. At Peerless Hospital, at least four senior doctors, includin...

Now that the worldwide coverage of India’s crisis over oxygen, ICU beds and medicine is concentrating minds in officialdom, public health and medical planners would do well to anticipate the next big steps in managing the Covid-19 crisis, both for this second wave and the third wave that will follow almost inevitably. The principal crisis going forward will be the shortage of medical professionals. How can this be addressed? Cardiac surgeon Devi Shetty made some sensible suggestions at a recent webinar about mobilising trained nursing and medical students waiting for their exams and incen...

Read more about 'India will need 500,000 ICU beds, 350,000 medical staff in next few weeks' on Business Standard. At present, India has 90,000 ICU beds and almost all are already occupied - when the second wave of the pandemic hasn't even reached its peak yet, says noted surgeon Dr Devi Prasad Shetty

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