Health care workers facing social ostracism during COVID-19

ABSTRACT

Ever since the World Health Organisation (WHO) declared on March 11th 2020, Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) a ‘pandemic’due to alarming level of spread of the Corona virus infection, doctors and the health care workers are facing discrimination and are socially ostracised. Stigma associated with COVID-19 poses a serious threat to the physical and mental wellbeing of health care workers. This article while highlighting the problems also suggests measures the doctors and health care workers should take so that they can address this stigma efficiently.