Working hours and Mental Stress: Human Rights Panel calls for protection of Doctors after medico files complaint against HOD Anaesthesia
Kozhikode: While considering the plea by a postgraduate medical student of GMC Kozhikode, who failed handling job-related stress and challenges during the pandemic, the Kerala State Human Rights Commission (KSHRC) has recently directed the senior doctors to protect students against possible mental-health issues.
Such a direction was issued by the judicial member of the Commission K. Baijunath while the Commission was considering the plea filed by a third year PG student belonging to the institute.
The PG medico had filed the plea against the Head of the Department (HoD) of Anaesthesiology.
After the HoD explained that the student might have problem with the working hours during the pandemic, the complaint was finally disposed off by the Commission, which did not find any deliberate human rights violation. However, the Commission opined that the mental stress of the student might had been increased due to the difficulties faced by the healthcare workers during the pandemic.
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