A 27-year-old doctor who recently completed his post-graduate Master of Surgery (MS) course, reveals the toll it takes on the doctors, “There’s an inhuman workload on junior doctors. They are doing continuous shifts of up to 36 hours and 48 hours at one stretch. And this is happening routinely. They are made to do 24 hours of on-call duty, ward work and emergency duty and then right after that (24 hours into their shift), they are made to work in the Operation Theatre. So, they are operating in the Emergency Room and the OT under stress and in a completely sleep-deprived condition. It’s immense pressure. Many friends of mine could not cope up with this and a few of them even tried to commit suicide.”