Health Workers

Chief Secretary Manoj Pant will be the chairperson of the task force, while Home Secretary Nandini Chakraborty, Director General of Police (DGP) Rajeev Kumar, Health Secretary NS Nigam and Kolkata Police Commissioner Manoj Verma will be part of it.

Frontline health workers facing 'burnout' due to COVID-19, need to address their mental health issues: Expert

There were many incidents wherein doctors and nurses attempted or committed suicide in the world due to depression during the pandemic, Dr Vithyalakshmi Selvaraj, psychiatrist and chief medical officer of the Omaha Insomnia and Psychiatric Services, Nebraska, USA, told PTI.

Supreme Court turns away challenge to U.S. vaccine rule for health workers

The justices turned away an appeal by the states after a lower court declined to immediately consider their claims that the vaccine rule violates federal administrative law and tramples over powers reserved for the states under the U.S. Constitution.

In Pics | Protest in Delhi on 2nd day of nationwide strike

Hundreds of workers marched with the red flags of the labour unions and chanted anti-government slogans in India’s capital on March 29 as part of a two-day nationwide strike that began on March 28.

In Pics | India crosses over 4 lakh-mark deaths due to COVID-19 pandemic

India on July 2 crossed the grim milestone of more than 400,000 people lost to the coronavirus, a number that though massive is still thought to be a vast undercount because of a lack of testing and reporting.

Spanish nurses witness grim solitude of COVID-19

As the virus shrinks the worlds of patients to a hospital ward, in the absence of loved ones they are deeply grateful for the nurses’ care.

Ebola: Health staff face critical decision on the pregnant

Health workers have very little time to decide whether a pregnant women with complications is free of Ebola and should have the necessary intervention, or may have Ebola and should have minimal procedures