India: Doctors treating Covid patients develop amnesia

Kanpur: Not only senior and junior doctors but the paramedical staff and other health workers treating the Covid patients also suffer from dehydration, giddiness, amnesia and headache due to their hectic eight-hour schedule.

More than 50 doctors and health workers of Gnesh Shankar Vidyarthi medical College are facing such sort of symptoms. This topic has been referred to in the medical college. 

They neither take anything to eat nor avail of the air-conditioning nor the electric fan air during the duty hours.

The PPE Kit that they have to wear often remains a bit bulky. Its cloth is said to be quite thick. On account of this unique dress, the whole of the body gets warmed up abundantly.

Prof Anil Kumar, head, anaesthesia department, medical college, said that dehydration is causing owing to lesser intake of water and amnesia causes on account of paucity of oxygen in the body.