General physicians from India and public sector medical practitioners from Pakistan were showing significant mortality when compared with other regions in multivariate logistic regression. The highest physician mortality rate in the general population recorded in Afghanistan (27/1000 deaths). Internal Medicine (58.43%) was the most severely affected sub-specialty. Male physician deaths were reported to be 145 (145/170вЂ‰=вЂ‰85%). The total number of physician deaths reported due to COVID-19 in our study was 170, with half (87/170, 51%) of the deaths reported from Iran. All available data about the country of origin, type of, sex, age, medical or surgical specialty, and date of death were included.

Our study included only those physicians and doctors who died after contracting COVID-19 from their respective workplaces.

We performed a cross-sectional study by using published news reports on the websites of news agencies from 9 selected countries in South Asia. Accordingly, we conducted this study to provide an updated account of physician deaths in South Asia during the COVID-19 pandemic and to analyze and compare the different characteristics associated with physician mortality amongst the countries of the region. The highly contagious nature of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) places physicians in South Asia at high risk of contracting the infection.

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