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Doctors evicted from their homes in India as fear spreads amid coronavirus lockdown

As the global coronavirus pandemic worsens by the day, fear is swelling in India – and frontline medical workers are bearing the brunt of public panic.… there are signs of rising anxiety amid a dramatic nationwide lockdown, with scenes of panic buying and targeted harassment of doctors and other frontline workers.

Medical staff in the national capital New Delhi say they have been ostracized and discriminated against by their communities due to fears that they may be infected after working with coronavirus patients. Some doctors have even reported being evicted, or facing threats that their electricity will be cut off.

“Doctors, nurses and other healthcare workers involved in Covid care are being asked to vacate their rented homes and some have been even forcefully evicted from their temporary residence by landlords and house-owners due to the fear that those healthcare professionals make them susceptible to coronavirus infection,” said a letter from the Resident Doctors’ Association of New Delhi’s All India Institute of Medical Sciences, sent on Tuesday to Union Home Minister Amit Shah.…

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‘Cops haven’t understood essential services’: Doctors in Delhi, Bengaluru, Hyderabad tell tales of harassment (Mar 26, 2020, First Post)

https://www.firstpost.com/health/cops-havent-understood-essential-services-doctors-healthcare-staff-in-delhi-bengaluru-hyderabad-tell-tales-of-harassment-8188351.html

In Act of Vigilantism, Republic TV Reporter Heckles Doctor For ‘Violating Lockdown’ (Mar 25, 2020, The Wire)

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Journos attacked by police during lockdown in Andhra, stage protest  (Mar 26, 2020, News Minute)

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