Violence against doctors: Mental health repercussions and remedies

Abstract

Violence against healthcare workers,particularly doctors, exhibited an increasingtrend in several parts of the world during the COVID-19 pandemic (Reddy et al., 2019;Devi, 2020). As compared to the pre-COVID-19 pandemic, during the COVID-19 period, there is an increase in violenceagainst doctors and it is more so with thehealthcare workers involved in contacttracing and screening (Priya & Pathak, 2020).Violence against doctors during COVID-19pandemic is not limited to India; rather,several lower-middle-income countrieswitnessed similar incidents in an increasingfashion (Bhatti et al., 2021).