Insufficiency of personal protective equipment for health workers is now an acute problem in numerous countries attacked by Covid-19, even in the West. The scale and suddenness of the contagion have exposed the weaknesses and complacencies in many health systems. Today, although the Union health ministry is tight-lipped about all numbers, doctors’ associations are calculating that at least 50 doctors have been infected by the virus. There seems to be — yet — no sense of what might happen if numbers of health workers, sanitation workers, ambulance workers fall ill. And how do health workers, insecure about their own safety, meet their families at the end of their day? Health workers seeking to collect samples were pelted with stones in Indore, and many nurses and medical students have been evicted from their rented accommodations.

Source: The Telegraph April 06, 2020 20:15 UTC