{"id":109779,"date":"2021-06-01T09:46:34","date_gmt":"2021-06-01T04:16:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=109779"},"modified":"2021-06-01T20:54:42","modified_gmt":"2021-06-01T15:24:42","slug":"effects-of-pandemic-on-young-healthcare-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/effects-of-pandemic-on-young-healthcare-workers\/","title":{"rendered":"Effects of Pandemic on Young Healthcare Workers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><b>Synopsis:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Need to give attention to the requirements of the most vulnerable members of the caregiving team i.e. young healthcare workers.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>Introduction\u00a0<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">young medical interns, postgraduates, nurses, physiotherapists, pharmacists, etc are at the lowest steps in the hierarchy of training. It seems fair from an academic view and is according to any professional training path. However, this structure is apathetic for young health care workers.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Even before the pandemic, duty hour restrictions were not followed for young healthcare workers. Sleep-deprived postgraduates used to work for 100-hours in a week.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There is inconsistency in stipends rates. For example, Tamil Nadu and Himachal Pradesh offer the lowest monthly stipends to first-year residents at Rs 35-37,000.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><b>What are the adverse effects of the pandemic on young healthcare workers?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">During the pandemic, most public hospitals had young interns, postgraduates, nurses, and technicians staff in fever clinics, wards, and ICUs. They were overworked by the huge volume of patients.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><b>Firstly, they are physically distressed by working for 8-12 hours<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in a stuffy PPE suit and tightly-fitted face mask. One cannot even take a toilet break.<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li><b>It requires a tremendous cognitive effort to manage complex ventilator<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> settings and drug interactions. Especially when the patient is admitted to the <a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/origin-of-covid-19\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Covid-19<\/a> ward with multiple co-morbidities.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><b>Secondly,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> as the second wave hit, hospitals increased their beds and ICU capacity. <\/span><b>But the healthcare workers remained overstretched.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The burden further increased by poorly-informed public health measures and an increase in public frustration and indifference.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>Thirdly, the NEET postgraduate exams this year<\/b> <b>have been delayed<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. The shortage of workers will continue to overburden them.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>Fourthly, the growing amount of disinformation on social media<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> which adds to distrust against doctors and nurses has left most trainees in an unfortunate position. They are defending their worth and the firmness of scientific evidence that updates medical practice.\u00a0<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li><b>They also have to defend themselves against the several instances of violence<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and abuse by patient attendees.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><b>Fifthly<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, all of these factors have taken a toll on the well-being of young trainees<\/span><b>. They are away from their familie<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">s and the uncertainty about their safety amidst a global pandemic <\/span><b>affects their mental health.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>Sixthly, suicide has claimed the lives of students, interns, and postgraduates in the last year across the country.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Reasons were the stress of persistent duty hours, (some even suffering from severe conditions themselves).<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h5><b>The conclusion\u00a0<\/b><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is time we bring an end to our indifference towards young healthcare workers. There should be some amendments to the Epidemic Disease Act to protect frontline workers from exploitation. They should be provided with centrally-sponsored insurance schemes.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Citizens must now speak out against the exploitation of young trainees. It should be a moral responsibility to end this toxic culture that feeds off public apathy.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/opinion\/columns\/healthcare-worker-hierarchy-professional-training-covid-pandemic-7337174\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">click here<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Synopsis: Need to give attention to the requirements of the most vulnerable members of the caregiving team i.e. young healthcare workers. Introduction\u00a0 young medical interns, postgraduates, nurses, physiotherapists, pharmacists, etc are at the lowest steps in the hierarchy of training. It seems fair from an academic view and is according to any professional training path.&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/effects-of-pandemic-on-young-healthcare-workers\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Effects of Pandemic on Young Healthcare Workers<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,1351,1310,9],"tags":[1289,1300],"class_list":["post-109779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-daily-news","category-daily-news-updates","category-public","tag-soc_0","tag-soc_3","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704894288},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109779\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}