A week at AIIMS: 5 doctors admitted to Psychiatry Ward, One attempts Suicide
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While many may attribute this increase in stress due to longer working hours and increasing population pressure at AIIMS, Sources at the hospital ironically told MAIL TODAY that there is a rise in a number of such cases due to increased reporting as previously such matter used to be hushed up or not brought to light.
Delhi: In a short span of a week , five doctors attached to All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi have been admitted to the psychiatric ward, seeking treatment for mental health as per a recent report in India Today. The news which did not come as a surprise to many familiar with the plight of resident doctors indeed raises questions of the mental safety of doctors working in government hospitals.
Mail today reports about the admission of these doctors, who seem to have been stricken with the disease of stress. A senior professor of psychiatry division, on the condition of anonymity, told Mail Today, "I myself have seen and admitted at least two doctors in the past two weeks. One of them has been discharged now and the rest are being treated.” Doctors at the hospital also informed that an anesthesia resident tried to commit suicide in the last week, but was thankfully saved by fellow colleagues
Delhi: In a short span of a week , five doctors attached to All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi have been admitted to the psychiatric ward, seeking treatment for mental health as per a recent report in India Today. The news which did not come as a surprise to many familiar with the plight of resident doctors indeed raises questions of the mental safety of doctors working in government hospitals.
Mail today reports about the admission of these doctors, who seem to have been stricken with the disease of stress. A senior professor of psychiatry division, on the condition of anonymity, told Mail Today, "I myself have seen and admitted at least two doctors in the past two weeks. One of them has been discharged now and the rest are being treated.” Doctors at the hospital also informed that an anesthesia resident tried to commit suicide in the last week, but was thankfully saved by fellow colleagues
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