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| Year : 2021 | Volume
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| Issue : 3 | Page : 86-88 |
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Migration and health during COVID-19: Indian perspective need to focus on the migrant health
Ambarish Das, Manish Taywade, Bimal Kumar Sahoo, Kajal Das
Department of Community Medicine and Family Medicine, All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India
Correspondence Address:
Dr. Manish Taywade
Department of Community Medicine and Family Medicine, All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Bhubaneswar 751019, Odisha.
India
 Source of Support: None, Conflict of Interest: None
DOI: 10.4103/AMJM.AMJM_39_21
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Migrants and forcibly displaced people are one of the worst affected sections in the COVID-19 pandemic. More or less every country has felt it to be a challenging task to look after the health of migrants in a similar way as they are supposed to do so for their own citizens. Migrants need to be given special attention when it comes to testing and treatment because they could be both victims and potential sources of this SARS COV-2 virus. In this article, some important issues related to migrants’ health in this pandemic have been briefly addressed. |
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