The COVID-19 pandemic has left almost every affected country with a dire shortage of treatment essentials including masks, personal protective equipments, ventilators, hospital beds, isolation wards and even the surgical gowns. To add to the difficult situation, doctors in India are even being attacked. Lack of necessary medical equipment has left doctors in India in a dire situation.
Shortages of personal protective equipments and the inability to import them from other countries, has already left some doctors in the country to use raincoats and helmets as protective equipments while treating COVID-19 patients. Doctors have raised concerns that the shortage of protective gear could make them disease carriers. Few ambulance drivers in Uttar Pradesh have also raised concerns of contracting the infection and called upon a one-day strike seeking proper protective equipments and health…
