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Long duty hours of doctors need to be changed: Delhi High Court

As part of its directions, the court had asked the National Accreditation Board for Hospitals, a body under the Quality Council of India, to assess quality of health care and working conditions of medical professionals at three hospitals in Delhi

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The Delhi High Court on Wednesday questioned the need for doctors to be on duty for 24 hours or more and said that it should be changed. Referring to the shortage of medical professionals, a bench of Acting Chief Justice Gita Mittal and Justice C Hari Shankar observed that in a country "blessed with human resource" the relatives of hospitalised patients need to lug around medicines and reports from one department to another in a hospital.

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