Baba Farid University launches helpline to reduce doctors’ stress

Faridkot, May 21

The Baba Farid University of Health Sciences (BFUHS), Faridkot, has started an online helpline to lessen the stress of over 500 doctors and paramedical staff at the Guru Gobind Singh Medical College and Hospital, serving over 450 Covid patients.

Dr Ruhee Dugg, registrar of the university, said the services rendered by doctors and paramedical staff during the pandemic were stressful, as well as emotionally and mentally exhausting. To relieve the staff of this stress, the university started a helpline, in association with a Bengaluru-based NGO, she said.

The helpline will provide special assistance to doctors to share their concerns. The experts will listen to medicos and help them manage fear and anxiety caused during the crisis. The registrar said Dr Ashwani, founder of Mukta Foundation in Bengaluru, and his fellow psychologists, would provide online services to doctors daily from 3 pm to 7 pm.

“This helpline will help in strengthening the minds of doctors and paramedical staff, and alleviate the problems faced by them during their duty,” the registrar said. — TNS