NEW DELHI: The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) led Delhi government on Wednesday announced ₹1 crore for the kin of hospital staff who lose their lives trying to save covid-19 patients.
Delhi has not reported any such deaths so far but two doctors have tested positive. A nurse in Haryana has also tested positive.
Chief minister Arvind Kejriwal on Wednesday interacted, digitally, with government medical staff of on covid-19 duty. During the interaction, doctors raised the lack of personal protective equipment (PPE), testing kits and the issue of security. “If anyone loses their life while serving any #COVID19 patient, be it sanitation workers, doctors or nurses or any other staff, temporary or permanent, from private or government sector, their family