Doctors across the country, particularly women, report feeling unsafe during night shifts. Also, modifications to infrastructure are essential to ensure safe, clean, and accessible duty rooms, bathrooms, food, and drinking water, a study by the Indian Medical Association has found. According to the study, there is substantial scope for improving security personnel and equipment in healthcare settings. Adequate staffing, effective triaging, and crowd control in patient care areas are also necessary to ensure that doctors can provide the required attention to each patient without feeling threatened by their work environment, it said.24% of women doctors feel unsafe during night duties, finds IMA study
Doctors across the country, particularly women, report feeling unsafe during night shifts. Also, modifications to infrastructure are essential to ensure safe, clean, and accessible duty rooms, bathrooms, food, and drinking water, a study by the Indian Medical Association has found. According to the study, there is substantial scope for improving security personnel and equipment in healthcare settings. Adequate staffing, effective triaging, and crowd control in patient care areas are also necessary to ensure that doctors can provide the required attention to each patient without feeling threatened by their work environment, it said.
