Indian doctors being evicted from homes over coronavirus fears
by Hannah Ellis-Petersen in Delhi and Shaikh Azizur R from Science | The Guardian on (#51E3P)
Medical staff on the frontline face ostracisation and are being forced to sleep in their hospitals
Doctors and medical workers in India are being ostracised from communities, evicted from their homes and forced to sleep in hospital bathrooms and on floors over fears they may be carrying coronavirus.
In cases reported across the country, healthcare professionals described the growing stigma they are facing from their neighbours and landlords, resulting in many being refused taxis, barricaded from their own homes, or made homeless.
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