Doctors Down: Hospitals face staff shortage with frontline workers catching COVID-19
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Most hospitals have scaled up capacity by 10-35% to accommodate the increasing number of Covid patients and are recruiting more healthcare staff. But doctors, nursing staff and other frontline workers are increasingly staying away from work for 14-21 days after contracting the virus.
Reuters
Adding to the already grim situation in India s second Covid wave is the increasing number of healthcare professionals who are catching the infection. The medical fraternity has sounded an alarm -healthcare facilities are running on full capacity with fewer staff members.Hospital administrations have warned that the peak of second wave will hit India harder if this continues. The only positive is that since healthcare workers are mostly fully vaccinated, post-infection symptoms are mild to moderate.