Bhubaneswar, Nov. 24 -- New Delhi: The Federation of Residents Doctors Association (FORDA), an association of the resident doctors in Delhi, has expressed anguish against the Delhi government's latest order to deploy undergraduate MBBS (medicine) and BDS (dentistry) students on Covid duties in order to manage the scarcity of healthcare workers amid the raging Covid surge.

As per the association, the undergraduate students do not have the necessary skills to clinically manage the medical care of the Covid patients and hence, are also at the risk of contracting the infection.

"The UG students are not skilled enough. They are yet to undergo the basic training and internship. Engaging such students is like deploying an army without weapons....