Doctors and nurses from Kerala have volunteered to come to Mumbai to assist in fighting the COVID-19 pandemic, but a number of nurses from the southern state and other states employed with private hospitals in Mumbai and Pune, have resigned from their jobs, and are still awaiting release.

A senior office bearer of United Nurses Association (UNA), raising concerns of nursing staff all over the country, said, "We have learnt that already 200 nurses and brothers have left from Mumbai and Pune, after resigning from their jobs. But a large number is still stuck here, even after resigning before the lockdown, as the state government imposed Maharashtra Essential Services Maintenance Act (MESMA), and their certificates are still with the hospital."