nagpur health officer of amravati municipal corporation amc dr vishal kale last friday tendered his resignation citing work pressure while he withdrew the resignation on monday following intervention by amc commissioner prashant rode its an alarming development doctors are continuously working for the last four months due to covid19 pandemic and if they are feeling exhausted then it could cause a major jolt to the entire system doctors at the three covid hospitals in the city are working 24x7 for the last four months those working in frontline mostly resident doctors get mandatory sevenday rest or alternate duties after working in the covid ward but seniors and administrators deans medical superintendents nodal officers and heads of important departments are working without a single day of leave or weekly offin the health department and civil surgeons office almost all employees including the civil surgeon are working without off or leave doctors with administrative responsibilities are already dealing with challenges like inadequate staff increasing number of cases complicated paper work and long hours at office all this is now taking toll on mental and physical abilities of these doctors every doctor is under tremendous work pressure government hospitals have been converted into covid19 hospitals we are dealing with covid as well as noncovid patients said dean of one of the gmcs in vidarbha being government servants these doctors cannot give any excuse in the crisis time and give results workload can be handled if we get proper support from patients and common people we understand their expectations from the hospitals and are trying to provide best services to them said a former dean of yavatmal gmch who is now leading several covid missions on statelevel doctors expect responsible behaviour from patients while using common toilets and viewing common television set in wards lockdown or no lockdown its everybodys responsibility to follow rules and restrict the spread of infection if we want to maintain our health system intact everyone in the medical field is continuously working from last four months and the covid19 peak is yet to arrive in vidarbha said a senior health official from nagpur adding that mere beds dont treat patients but doctors do