Around hospital, doctor may ask for a face-covering (7)
I believe the answer is:
yashmak
'covering' is the definition.
(yashmak is a kind of covering)
'around hospital doctor may ask' is the wordplay.
'around' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'hospital' becomes 'H' (abbreviation for hospital on maps).
'doctor' indicates an anagram.
'may'+'ask'='mayask'
'mayask' with letters rearranged gives 'yasmak'.
'h' placed within 'yasmak' is 'YASHMAK'.
'for a face' acts as a link.
I am not very happy about this link. Some or all of it may be part of another bit of the clue.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for yashmak that I've seen before include "Veil concealing face worn by Muslim women" , "Muslim women's veil" , "Face-veil worn by Muslim women" , "Eastern veil" , "Veil worn in public by Muslim women" .)