Lakhs of doctors and nurses have been putting their lives at stake in high-risk environments to treat patients of COVID-19.
Doctors, whose lives changed overnight due to a global pandemic, are working long hours tirelessly. At the hospital, they practise heavy precautions, and at home, they have to maintain social distancing from their loved ones to protect them from any potential infection.
Reports have also emerged of doctors facing social stigma because of being in hospitals and treating COVID-19 patients, although they are constantly doing their best to ensure patients recover soon.
On National Doctor's Day, let's remember and thank them again for their unstinted efforts to contain the novel coronavirus.
It must be noted that at least 70 Indian doctors have died so far on COVID-19 duty. Last week, 52-year-old Aseem Gupta, an anaesthetist at Delhi's LNJP Hospital, died of the virus in the line of duty.
In India, there is one doctor for every 1,457 people as per the country's current population estimate of 1.35 billion, which is lower than the World Health Organisation norm of 1:1000, the government had said last year according to Business Standard’s report.
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