Indian top court said that continuous work might be affecting mental health of doctors. The Supreme Court has made a suggestion to the Centre on Tuesday to consider granting break to doctors engaged in COVID-19 duty for the last seven-eight months.
A bench of Justices Ashok Bhushan, R S Reddy and M R Shah, which is hearing a suo motu case on proper treatment of COVID-19 patients and dignified handling of dead bodies in hospitals, asked Solicitor General Tushar Mehta to consider the suggestions of giving the doctors few days break. The Solicitor General assured the bench that the government would consider the suggestion of the bench to grant some break to health workers engaged in COVID-19 duty.
"For last seven-eight months doctors have not been given any break and are continuously working. You take instruction and think over giving them some break. It must be very painful and might be affecting their mental health," the bench told the solicitor. Supreme court also expressed shock that the Gujarat government has fined around Rs 90 crore fine for not wearing face masks, but has not been able to enforce the guidelines on COVID-19-appropriate usage of Masks.
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