Patients are being admitted to hospitals "without clinical justification," which adds to such burden and also leads to non-COVID patients not getting hospital bed in emergency, it warned. The government as well as medical associations must put an end to such practises, the letter said.The signatories to the letter included Dr Sanjay Nagral of Jaslok Hospital, Mumbai; Dr Cyriac Abby Phillips, the Liver Institute, Rajagiri Hospital, Kerala; Dr Rajani Bhat, Bengaluru; Dr Bharat Gopal, Delhi and Dr Richa Gupta, Christian Medical College, Vellore.The group also included some Indian-origin doctors living in the US and Canada.