According to the statistics, Indians make for one in 10 of all the foreign born doctors in the National Health Service (NHS) in the UK. It is believed that they are at a higher risk because of the consistent spread of the coronavirus pandemic.
The report was published by the Institute of Fiscal Studies which studied some of the ethnic variable in the impact of Covid-19 and also found that the Indians are also the ones less likely to be impacted by the economic consequences imposed by the lockdown. The main reason behind the same is because they are in more secured jobs.
“Indian men are 150 per cent more likely to work in health or social care roles than their white British counterparts. While the Indian ethnic group makes up 3 per cent of the working-age population of England and Wales, they account for 14 per cent of doctors,” the report further suggested.
The IFS analysis further said that the individuals working in the social and healthcare system are more likely at a risk of infection in comparison to the remaining ones. The Indians are also likely to experience higher risks because of the same.
As per the statistics 37% of the doctors in UK are foreign born and one in 10 are from India. All of them are now working on the frontline in the hospitals to fight the coronavirus pandemic.
Further analysis of the study also reported that the Pakistani and Bangladeshi households are at a maximum risk among the South Asian cohort. The reason why they were considered the most vulnerable was because of the fact that they belonged to the sectors which were under complete lockdown because of the social distancing rules.
According to the study, it further clarified that majority of the ethnic group are under substantial economic vulnerability and with all the restrictions in place, it is likely that the Indian ethnic groups are less likely going to experience the economic crisis.
The same can’t be told for some of the other ethnic groups which depend on self employment or are working in sectors that are being shut down at the moment. The IFS study also found that the death rate is higher in the black African patients in comparison to the White Britons. The same is followed by Pakistani, which is the next category.
The reason why that is the case is because the Black and South Asian communities have a very higher rate of diabetes in the population as a whole. The older Pakistani men have also been found to have higher rates of cardiovascular complaints as well.
Aside from that, in comparison to the British people, the people from these ethnic groups are also more likely to stay in crowded spaces. This makes the process of social distancing a lot harder in comparison.
“In sum, there is clear evidence for disproportionality in COVID-19 mortalities thus far for a number of ethnic groups after accounting for their age profiles and places of residence,” the study concludes.
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