A Survey Of Medical Professionals’ Perception And Challenges In Dealing With Covid-19 Outbreak in India

The Corona Virus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a disease caused by a previously unidentified strain of corona virus family which emerged in Wuhan, Hubei, China in December 2019. Since then the outbreak has transformed rapidly into an extensive global crisis, overburdening the healthcare systems worldwide as well as creating economic instability. Prime mode of transmission in humans include droplet or contact transmission. Healthcare professionals are the frontline warriors who are working tirelessly in order to manage the ever increasing number of patients with each passing day. Such a pandemic is bound to have a lasting impact on the mental and physical health of Doctors and paramedical staff for a long time. This paper is an attempt by the authors to examine and understand the perspective of Medical Professionals related to the obstacles they may be facing in these challenging times from the government and the public in general patients