Challenges of Health Care Providers During the Crisis of Covid-19 Pandemic

Abstract

The world is facing the sweeping effects of COVID 19 that
has started from Wuhan City. It exponentially spread globally
and turned out to be an outrageous event for the economy
and global health. 1 The major challenge for the health care
professionals is to cope with mental and physical stress
while dealing COVID-19 patients in hospitals. 2
We would like to highlight the challenges that are faced by
our front line workers and how they are trying to cope with
these situations in Pakistan. Safety of health care workers
form being infected with the virus and facing aggressive
behavior from attendants of patient simultaneously is one
of the main challenges. Until now, a number of cases have
been reported on daily basis where doctors and paramedical
staffs are beaten and injured due to aggressive actions of
attendants. This attitude reflects the inaccessibility of hospitals
and unavailability of appropriate health care services; from
which provision of ventilator is the basic requirement for
the severe cases of COVID-19. For this reason doctors’
community is in favor of complete lock down to break the
chain of transmission and to lessen the burden on health
care systems. However, for country with poor resources it
is very difficult to implement lock down and social distancing
due to socioeconomic challenges.