Excelsior Correspondent
Srinagar, Mar 20: The Resident Doctors Association of Government Medical College Srinagar and its associated hospitals have written to the Principal of the GMC that they are at risk as they lack proper protective gear to deal with the coronavirus.
“There is extreme dearth of even proper triple layer face masks in the hospital let alone the recommended PPE. Every day the residents of all the departments have to beg and bargain for even these inadequate facemasks as such it needs to be recognised that the quantity of PPE and masks is grossly inadequate for the number of residents working here, who are first contacts of the suspected patients”, reads the letter addressed to GMC Srinagar Principal.
The RDA has said that their families back home are at risk due to lack of protective gear to deal with the Coronavirus patients. “The residents working here also have homes to go to and loved ones back at home. After being exposed to the infections here at the hospitals, we have to go back home, where so of our family members are immune compromised, elderly or otherwise susceptible to infections”, reads the letter.
The doctors have said that they should be provided hostel facilities so that they may not carry infection back home.
“Even if someone does get infected, the spread of infection can be limited and rest of the doctors can continue to see the patients. We are also part of the community and accept that some or even most of us might get infected and fall sick but the goal should always be to keep
that number to the minimum by taking all possible precautions”, he said.
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