After the Health Ministry said this week that the centre does not maintain data of healthcare workers who died due to Covid-19 , the Indian Medical Association (IMA) has published a list of 382 doctors who died due to the disease and demanded that they be treated as martyrs.

When asked about the number of healthcare staff, including doctors, nurses, support staff and ASHA workers, who died from Covid, Minister of State for Health Ashwini Kumar Choubey said on Tuesday that health is a state subject and such data is not maintained at Central level by the Ministry of Health
and Family Welfare.

However, database of those seeking relief under the Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Insurance Package is maintained at national level, he said and added that relatives of 155 healthcare workers sought relief under the package.