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COVID-19 grabs nearly 40 doctors in its arms across the country

by Raju Vernekar
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IT Correspondent
Mumbai, June 16:

While Maharashtra, which has surpassed one lakh COVID-19 cases and accounts for more than a third of the country’s coronavirus case burden, has lost nearly 9 doctors even as nearly 40 doctors and three nurses, have succumbed to coronavirus fatalities across the country till now.
The doctors include specialists as well as general practitioners, who were either treating or had unknowingly exposed themselves to coronavirus patients. The nurses were in the treating wards. Madhya Pradesh and Gujarat follow Maharashtra in the number of death of doctors. Dr. Shatrugun Panjwani, from Indore in Madhya Pradesh, became the first doctor to pass away due to coronavirus in the country.
As per the Indian Medical Association (IMA), the statistics of the death of doctors is: Maharashtra-9, Madhya Pradesh-6, Gujarat-5, Uttar Pradesh-5, Tamil Nadu-4, West Bengal-3, Delhi-3, Andhra Pradesh-2, Meghalaya-1 and J & K-1.
Maharashtra: Dr. Ashfaq Shah (36), general practitioner, Govandi, (23 April,2020), Dr. Ranjit Singh, Dr. Om Saraf, Dr. Anil Bhulekar, Dr. Chittaranjan Bhave, Dr Sunil Warang, Malad, Dr Rajendra Vora, Santacruz…all from Mumbai, Dr. Sanjay Shelar (55), Pune and a 44 year old general physician from Amravati district=09.
Madhya Pradesh: Dr Shatrughan Panjwani (general physician),Dr. Omprakash Chauhan (ayurvedic practitioner), (10 April), Dr Sanat Dalal, Dr. Ajay Joshi, Dr. B K Sharma (67) (21 May,2020)..all from Indore and Dr. N L Hera, Itarasi=06.
Gujarat: Dr. Aditya Upadhyay, Dr. Kamlesh Tailor, Dr. Ramesh Patel, Dr. M A Ansari, Dr. Pankaj Shah,..all from Ahmedabad=05.
Uttar Pradesh: Dr Nizamuddin, Moradabad, an anonymous Ayurvedic doctor from Bulandshahr, an anonymous Registered Medical Praactitioner, Bijnore, Dr. Sunil Agarwal, Lucknow and Dr Zaheer Alam(65), Jarwalm (11 June, 2020)=05.
Tamil Nadu: A 55 year old neuro surgeon, (19 April,2020), Dr Simon Hercules, Dr Vinod Raja (9 June 2020) and Dr R Balasubramanian (70) (11 June 2020)..all from Chennai=04.
West Bengal: Dr. Bimal Kanti Dasgupta, Dr. Sisir Mondol (orthopaedic surgeon) and Dr. Biplab Dasgupta( Assistant Director in Health Services)( 26 April).. all from Kolkata=03.
New Delhi: An anonymous doctor from Jehangirpuri, Dr. Jitendra Nath Pande (78) (veteran pulmonologist),AIIMS, New Delhi (23 May,2020) and Dr. Rajendra P Yadav, Delhi=03.
Andhra Pradesh: Dr Laxminarayan Reddy, Nellore and Dr. K M Ismail Hussain, Karnool=02.
Meghalaya: Dr John L Sailo Ryntathiang, Shillong and Jammu and Kashmir: a 74-year-old doctor from Parray Poram, Srinagar( 6 June,2020)
Over 100 doctors and nearly 200 nurses have tested positive for COVID-19 across India so far. Since most of these infections were transmitted by patients in a hospital environment, at least 1000 medical workers, had to be quarantined and nearly 20 hospitals had to be fully or partially closed.
It is not just those working in Covid-19 wards who are on the front line, but also the community health workers and officials who are involved in contact tracing and screening suspected patients by going door-to-door in virus hotspots.

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