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Doctors, nurses share Covid-19 challenges, apprehensions as crisis deepens

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As India is fighting the Covid-19 crisis with nationwide lockdown, doctors and healthcare workers are working day and night to minimise the damage due to the pandemic with constant checks on the patients, either through phone or video conferencing.
 
The threat of them catching the coronavirus and infecting their own families also looms large, due to which most of the doctors have given up going homes and have shifted to solitary accommodations.

"The disease is very contagious and till now we do not have any concrete solutions on how to manage it effectively which for us is the primary challenge.

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