Lucknow: Doctors who have lost their lives while attending to
Covid patients should be declared martyrs, professor and HoD,
respiratory medicine, KGMU, Dr
Surya Kant said on Sunday.
Addressing an online programme,
Dr Surya Kant said nearly 800 doctors, including 12 from UP and Bihar, died in the country while treating Covid-19 patients. Earlier, the doctor had raised the issue in an article in an
IMA journal. “It is a good gesture on the part of the
central government that it has started reservation for the kin of martyrs in admission to MBBS course. In the same spirit, the Centre and the state governments should officially declare doctors losing lives during pandemic as martyrs,” he said.