Covid-19: Doctors may quit without proper post-pandemic support, defence body warns

The government must create a national plan to provide doctors with the mental wellbeing support they will need following the covid-19 pandemic, the Medical Protection Society (MPS) has said.

Without support and time to recuperate, many doctors may leave the profession or suffer in silence with psychological injuries, the defence body said.

It called on the government to invest in local initiatives such as counselling services, …