Indian doctors say they are already feeling overwhelmed as Covid cases rise sharply in the country.
It was the middle of January when Dr Lancelot Pinto realised he would be able to spend some quality time with his family after nearly a year.
Back in the hospital, he says the team is more physically prepared for the second wave. Most of them have been vaccinated and treatment protocols have also been refined."We are doing everything we can, but we don't have the same mental strength we had last year."The scenes in hospitals in India's capital, Delhi, and its neighbouring areas are not too different.
"We should have used the lean period to strengthen safety protocols, increase testing and tracing, and ramp up vaccination," he says. But that didn't happen, and now we are staring atBefore February, Dr Mehta was also able to spend more time with his family. He treasured seeing his wife, two sons, daughters-in-law and grandchildren. But now his phone too rings constantly - he had to answer several calls during our interview.
Others doctors agree that the mental health of healthcare professionals should worry policymakers. Fatigue, trauma and mental health are issues that doctors don't have the luxury of discussing at the moment, Dr Basu says.
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