A Mumbai advocate’s recent Public Interest Litigation (PIL) filed in the Bombay High Court with reference to healthcare workers, is a sit up and think moment for everybody.

Broadly, the PIL calls for better conditions, living and working for doctors and calls out the government on the long working hours, especially in the pandemic. A report in this paper also stated that the PIL said frontline workers should be given war hero benefits. Just like a soldier’s family is looked after in case he dies in a war or a terror incident, a parallel is drawn in this case for doctors, with the petition saying that the family also needs to be looked after by the government.