National Doctors’ Day 2021: We are not Gods, say doctors

Violence against doctors and other healthcare personnel has grown alarmingly since the Covid-19 pandemic hit India as patients’ families or friends often resorted to physically assaulting these professionals on suspicion that their relative was not given proper care. According to IMA, even as 800 doctors succumbed to Covid-19 this year, there have been dozens of cases of assaults of healthcare professionals in the country by the angry next of the kin.

Media India Group talks to a resident doctor at LNJP hospital in Delhi about the challenges she faced over the past 18 months.