Who thinks about the mental health of health care workers? - Reflection
I can't stop worrying about the psychological health of health care workers worldwide.
There is no doubt that we are currently facing a health crisis that I could say is unprecedented, there is no country that could be prepared to fully assume this reality that hits us today as humanity.
My position as a health professional is one of total concern, not only because the possibility of contagion is even greater among health personnel, but also because the psychological pressure that has to be endured is very strong.
Knowing that contagion can come from anywhere already implies a great burden. Seeing people die permanently and not being able to do much adds to the pressure.
Knowing that when you get home you can infect your loved ones, not easy to carry. Seeing that a colleague is seriously ill, or that family members are infected and knowing that they can have a fatal end, having to live daily in contact with the suffering of other people (patients and families), are things that most people do not take into account, and certainly that can lead to a mental breakdown in any person no matter how professional it is, because first of all humans are human.
In some countries like my Venezuela, they have to work in hospitals that don't have the means to treat even the slightest thing, much less this pandemic, to work without water, medicines, gloves, lack of the material to protect them from this reality, that's not titanic, it's almost suicidal.
Seeing death every day, for example in countries like Spain and Italy, bodies are counted by the hundreds every day, it is a titanic task for the emotions to bear these pressures.
There are already cases of suicides of health personnel reported in different countries, the exhaustion involved in the practice of medicine or nursing at this time goes beyond any other time in our contemporary history, and not only physical exhaustion, but mental, psychological and emotional.
It is indispensable that all of this be considered once we overcome this hard stage that we have had to live through, so that the psychological is seen as something that is a priority in everyone's attention.
It is good to recognize that it is evident the importance that the area of the health has in the whole world, in every society, although it is used - under normal conditions to value more to a football player, who win hundreds of millions - that to a doctor, psychologist, microbiologist or nurse.
There are certainly many things to re-consider after all this.
And I hope there's a drastic change in a better direction after all this.
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