Shoib, SGupta, AKAhmad, WJoseph, SJBhandari, SS.2023-07-142023-07-142021-12Shoib S, Gupta AK, Ahmad W, Joseph SJ, Bhandari SS.. Mental health professionals as ‘silent frontline healthcare workers’: perspectives from three South Asian countries. Open Journal of Psychiatry & Allied Sciences. 2021 Dec; 12(2): 144-1472394-20612394-2053http://imsear.searo.who.int/handle/123456789/218392Mental health professionals across the globe foresaw the mental health impact of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. They have faced scarcity of trained professionals, rising morbidities, lack of protective gear, shortage of psychotropic drugs, and poor rapport building due to masking and social distancing. Amidst all, they have responded with approaches that focus on continuing mental health services to the patients already in care, education of the vulnerable people to help them cope with these stressors, and provide counselling services to patients and families affected by the pandemic.ImpactCOVID-19 pandemicMaskingSocial DistancingCounselling.Journal ArticleIndiaJawahar Lal Nehru Memorial Hospital, Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, IndiaNational Medical College, Birgunj, NepalDepartment of Psychiatry and Behavioural Sciences, Peshawar Medical College, Mercy Teaching Hospital, Peshawar, PakistanDepartment of Psychiatry, Sikkim Manipal Institute of Medical Sciences, Gangtok, Sikkim, India