In the past two months, nearly 20,000 medical practitioners had gone off the field mainly due to the lack of PPE and unavailability of assisting staff MUMBAI : Thousands of doctors and nurses who had shut shop for the past two months in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region, have begun returning to work with the Maharashtra government facilitating procurement of personal protection equipment (PPE) for free to all private clinics.
In the past two months, nearly 20,000 medical practitioners had gone off the field mainly due to the lack of PPE and unavailability of assisting staff.
In the MMR region alone, 12,000 doctors had shut shop due to the shortage of protective gear, which also led their staff to abstain from work, further aggravating the