The coronavirus infection continues to rise day by day putting every individual in a fix and difficulty in beating the pandemic. This apart, Karnataka, face shortage of frontline staff such as doctors, nurses and ward staff in taking care of COVID-19 patients. A senior doctor during a conversation in a conference regretted in facing over 30% doctor shortage and over 50% shortage of nurses and ward boys.
Every healthcare worker takes utmost precautions in handling cases as they may be infected while treating the patients who have already tested positive. In order to be doubly careful, these frontline staff avoid going to their respective hospitals and no plans to come back after reaching their home towns due to the lockdown imposed by the Government. The staff who have been tested positive have already been under quarantine. The hospital managements made fervent appeal to the staff to join the duty immediately as the necessary infrastructure are already in place. Increase in remuneration and other healthcare insurance facilities are attractive benefits offered by the managements. Shortage of anaesthesiologists for treating COVID-19 patients in intensive care units put the management of contracting the virus. There is a full support of the government with regard to the need of ventilators at the private testing centres. The worry for the regular patients was that priority was given to serious patients by the doctors putting them in the back seat.
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