Indian medics in UK to be risk-assessed

London, April 30

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Indian-origin and other ethnic minority healthcare workers on the frontlines of the coronavirus pandemic within the UK’s state-funded National Health Service (NHS) should be risk-assessed for greater susceptibility to the deadly virus, according to new guidance issued to employers on Thursday.

NHS England has advised hospital trusts to make “appropriate arrangements” to ensure black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) doctors and nurses are shielded as best as possible on the job.

The move follows the government setting up a Public Health England (PHE) inquiry into the higher proportion of BAME deaths among the over 100 NHS workers who have died from the deadly virus as well as the wider community. PTI