Open AccessEmerging Wake-up Call before next Pandemics as Apart of Medicine and Technology: We terribly need Social and Healthcare Workers
Author(s) -
Monika Jankechová,
M. Dubovcova,
A. Murgova,
J. Otrubova,
Marie Bednaříková,
Z. Gazova,
H. Konosova,
M Taziarova,
Vlastimil Kozoň,
M. Oláh,
K. Bundzelová,
V. Krčméry,
Dave West
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
clinical social work journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2222-386X
pISSN - 2076-9741
DOI - 10.22359/cswhi_12_3_14
Subject(s) - pandemic , covid-19 , burnout , health care , psychology , work (physics) , social work , public relations , medicine , nursing , political science , disease , virology , clinical psychology , law , engineering , infectious disease (medical specialty) , mechanical engineering , pathology , outbreak
Thousands of healthcare and social workers (HCSW) died or lost their ability to work in their field after Covid pandemics in all three waves, and thousands left their profession due to burnout syndrome. Despite development of vaccines took 6- 18 months and refreshment of old molecules for treatment weeks, many countries paid a very high price for this pandemics not due to lack of medications or ventilator assistance devices but due to the increasing lack of trained HCSW.