After the owner's association of Neelpadam Kunj Apartment in Ghaziabad issued a notice asking doctors and healthcare workers living in the complex to stay in Delhi until the end of the lockdown, the AIIMS Resident Doctors' Association (RDA), taking note of the same, has written a letter to the Union Home Minister on May 7 to apprise him of the doctor's distress.

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The apartment association had issued a circular on May 7 prohibiting the entry and exit of doctors and healthcare workers from May 10 and asked them to arrange temporary shelters for themselves in Delhi while the lockdown is in force. The RDA letter said that healthcare workers residing in DELHI-NCR region are facing issues related to transport and accommodation as various residential societies are issuing notices restricting their entry during this critical time.

Stressing that healthcare workers involved in COVID-19 duties are facing additional stress of applying for passes to commute from Ghaziabad, Noida and Haryana to various government and private hospitals in Delhi, it asked: "Why cannot the Centre issue an order to enable the healthcare workers to commute by displaying their hospital identity cards?"