Of these 11000, nearly 10,000 will be doctors and 1000 will be nurses and ward boys With the number of covid-19 cases rising by the day in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region, the government will shortly onboard around 11,000 medical practitioners and healthcare workers to deal with the manpower crunch at public health facilities and help it fight covid-19.
Of these 11000, nearly 10,000 will be doctors and 1000 will be nurses and ward boys. "We have summoned doctors working in Mumbai and suburbs have been called.
They are sitting at home, not even opening their private clinics. Given the increase in the number of cases we had to issue the notification," said Dr T.P.