Assessing the decision of utilizing Undergraduate medical scholars and Nursing students for mitigating COVID-19 second wave:

Abstract

Going through the euphoria of false victory due to herd immunity by the beginning of 2021, India stepped into the critical stage after emergence of new strains of COVID-19. With more than 20.2 million cases being reported, a rolling average of 4,12,262 cases daily and death tolls crossing 3980 per day, hospitals and health workers are overwhelmed and exhausted across the country. As a result, here comes the need for a draconian step to be taken soon. With the virus spreading to 220 countries extensively, the human toll in India after the second wave is surely more than double the number of humans killed over 320 natural disasters during the recent two decades. COVID-19 pandemic has created the largest disruption in social, political and education system in history till date. Considering this acute crisis, the union government has decided to deploy final year undergraduate medical scholars and nursing students to COVID dedicated duties across the country. &nb