Coronavirus infections have killed at least 1,65,000 people since April in what is christened as the "second Covid wave”. Although India's latest Covid-19 surge has eased recently, around 3,000 people are still dying every day. The healthcare system remains under severe pressure. One of the weakest pillars in this system; that is fast running out of steam are physicians and health care workers. Pandemics are treated by medical personnel and not by hospital beds or oxygen concentrators. Conservative accounts estimate more than one thousand doctors died of Covid-19 since the start of the pandemic in India. However, the so-called second wave is nowhere near termination yet. Indications are rife that this number will increase. The number in the USA is believed to be twice that. However, the physician to population ratio is 2.6 per thousand in the US, whereas it is just 0.8 in India. Even Brazil, the other severely hit nation with more deaths than India but less than the US, has twice the number of physicians per thousand.