Open AccessIMPACT OF COVID 19 ON HEALTH SECTOR
Author(s) -
J. Sujitha Jacinth
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
international journal of scientific research
Language(s) - English
DOI - 10.36106/0403486
Subject(s) - pandemic , dilemma , personal protective equipment , health care , outbreak , covid-19 , work (physics) , business , public health , medicine , economic growth , public relations , nursing , political science , disease , economics , engineering , infectious disease (medical specialty) , virology , mechanical engineering , philosophy , epistemology , pathology
The Covid 19 outbreak has turned the world upside down by affecting from individual's life style to a country's economy.It doesn't leave medical sector too. The corona outbreak reshaped the medical systems all over the world as thispandemic proved the fragility of medical systems and the necessity for reconstruction of medical sector and toimprovise the facilities and care provided to the patients.This article throws light on the impact of Covid - 19 on medicalsector.The pandemic has deeply affected the live styles of health care workers.The increase in work pressure,changesin work time, inadequacy of personal protective equipments, higher risk of exposure to infection, treating thestigmatized patients have profoundly increased their stress levels.The fact is that the infection rate is more among themedical professionals than the common public. Hence health care workers are affected physically as well aspsychologically due to this pandemic.Being away from family and friends made them to lose their personal connectivitywith the society and has affected their social well being. Though pharmaceutical industries are benefitted by thepandemic due to the increased production of aprons, gloves, sanitizers, they are also stressed due to the process ofcontinuous research to discover vaccines to overcome this outbreak.Unlike other sectors,private health providers arehaving major drawback financially with lesser patients and low number of surgeries than before.Patients with non Coviddiseases suffer greatly as their periodic consultations with their physicians were not possible.This caused a dilemma intaking medicines and is unable to know the prognosis of the disease. So the patients are physically affected and alsostressed. Thus the impact of Covid 19 on medical industry is that it is going to revolutionize the medical industrythoroughly