The fight against coronavirus, which continues all over the world for more than a year, turned into a global blow to mental health care. According to the calculations of the World Health Organization (WHO), in the next ten years due to the pandemic, humanity will face a shortage of millions of medical workers, which generalizes Business Insider.
Health workers in all countries from the very beginning of the distribution of the COVID-19 virus were standing on the advanced in the struggle for people’s lives. This resulted in serious problems with their mental health, some doctors do not stand pressure and throw work in the hospital. According to WHO estimates, by 2030 in the world there may be a shortage of 18 million medical workers.
Ex-director of the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the current head of the International Health Organization Project Hope Dr. Tom Kenyon noted that physicians during a pandemic struggle with anxieties, depressed, experiences from – The degradation of the treatments of patients. To help doctors cope with tension and damage to mental health, past summer Project Hope organized special trainings in Indonesia’s hospitals, the Dominican Republic and the Philippines.
Doctors are also worried about problems with vaccination campaign. If a large percentage of residents have already been given in the rich countries of the world, and the abolition of coronavirus restrictions began, restoring the economy, then in developing and poor states there are still not everyone has access to vaccinations. For comparison: on June 1, 46 percent of residents received a dose of vaccine in the USA, while only 2.4 percent of the population were given in the Philippines.
“We do not expect that the whole world will be vaccinated quickly. Some countries still do not have a vaccine. We are lucky if by the end of the year the global coverage of vaccination will be ten percent of the population,” said Kenon.
Kenon explained that the accelerated vaccination reduces the voltage among the physicians about his own health and risk to bring a virus into the family. The doctor compared the fall of the moral spirit of doctors during the COVID-19 pandemic with the situation at the AIDS epidemic. Before the treatment of patients has become affordable, many doctors in fear to infect HIV simply left the hospitals, with the advent of effective measures to help the patient of the mood of health workers changed dramatically.
Pandemic postponed the imprint and on the emotional state of ordinary people who lived in the conditions of quarantine for many months. The psychologists of the FRAME therapists community warned of the possible effect of the “social hangover” (sensations of weakness and population) in the population after COVID-19. Particularly post-person hangover are subject to people suffering from increased anxiety, introverts. Specialists advise more rest, engage in loved ones, walk and meditate to cope with this state.