Doctors' body asks for risk allowance

NEW DELHI: Federation of Residents Doctors' Association has demanded risk hazard allowance from the health ministry.
In a letter written to the Union health minister, Harsh Vardhan, on Friday, the resident doctor's union has said morbidities and mortalities among healthcare professionals involved in outbreak response and patient care was common. "Doctors are also at risk of exposure to common infectious diseases such as TB, HIV, hepatitis, Malaria, typhoid and others," FORDA said.
FORDA members said they would also like to request for adequate number of masks and Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)."Acute shortage of masks and PPE has been observed in various hospitals of Delhi as the nation prepares to tackle Covid-19 outbreak," the resident doctors' body claimed.
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