We Must Express Gratitude To Frontline Healthcare Workers: Supreme Court

Justice Bhat said that he was not blaming anybody but thought that more needed to be done for these health care workers.

The Supreme Court Friday said doctors, nurses and other frontline health care workers are playing a vital role during the COVID-19 pandemic and it was high time to express gratitude to them as also the may Centre consider compensating them. A bench of Justices DY Chandrachud, LN Rao and S Ravindra Bhat said they know a doctor who is well known to Supreme Court judges and was yesterday struggling to find a bed in a hospital here after being infected by COVID-19. "You (centre) have to consider every aspect. You may have a look at compensating them. They (health care workers) are falling sick. They have been playing a vital role during this humanitarian crisis. Some of them have even lost their lives. We think it's high time that we express gratitude to them," the bench said. Justice Bhat said that he was not blaming anybody but thought that more needed to be done for these health care workers.