you have to deliver a speech on the condition of health workers in india during the pandemic write the speech in about 120-200 words.
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A healthcare worker is one who delivers care and services to the sick and ailing either directly as doctors and nurses or indirectly as aides, helpers, laboratory technicians, or even medical waste handlers. There are approximately 59 million healthcare workers worldwide. Recognizing the vital role played by health care workers as “the most valuable resource for health” the World Health Organization (WHO) had declared the years 2006 to 2015 as the “The decade of the human resources for health.”
Do these millions of workers who toil every day to provide healthcare to the ailing population enjoy good health themselves? In other words, are the healthcare workers healthier than their patients? As those who care daily for the sick and injured, healthcare workers are often viewed to be immune to injury or illness. Ideally, the very fact that the health facility is within their reach would make one believe so. However, the picture is not as rosy as it seems.
Healthcare industry is one of the most hazardous environments to work in. Employees in this industry are constantly exposed to a complex variety of health and safety hazards in the course of their work. Hazards range from biological exposure to disease causing organisms such as tuberculosis and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) or exposure to chemicals such as glutaraldehyde and ethylene dioxide. Apart from physical hazards such as exposure to radiation and noise, there are also ergonomic issues such as heavy lifting and standing for long periods. Long working hours and shift work add to the stress of work.
A healthcare worker is in need of protection from these workplace hazards just as much as any other category of workers such as miners or construction workers. The World Health Report 2006 – Working Together for Health – reported a severe healthcare workforce shortage especially in 57 countries, mostly in Africa and Asia. Fear of contracting infectious diseases is primarily responsible for high attrition rates among health care workers.
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While such precautions for doctors are still in the planning stages in India, we asked medical professionals what goes through their minds when a pandemic is declared and they are at the forefront of testing and caring. How do their partners react?
Dr Adarsh Pratap, president of the Resident Doctors Association at AIIMS, Delhi, positioned at Emergency, says it is the reason they signed up for the profession. His mother, who is over 60 and lives in Etawah, Uttar Pradesh, is worried, but “I tell her it’s like being in the Army in times of war. Ye to karna hi hai (This has to be done).”
Dr R Sajith Kumar, Professor and Head of Department of Infectious Diseases, Government Medical College, Kottayam, is a part of the Corona Clinical Management team for Kerala. He now treats four people in the isolation ward of the hospital. He says that his time at work is unpredictable. “It depends on the condition of my patients. After the Corona pandemic, there are days I have gone home at midnight. But that does not mean that I am not working when I am not in the hospital. I get calls from my juniors asking doubts or to update me on the condition of my patients.”
He is not worried that his interactions with the patients can put him or his family at risk. “I work with infectious patients everyday and I always make sure that I take enough precautions. My wife is also a doctor and so she understands,” he says.
Doctor Do-a-lot
In Madurai, Praveena Manimuthu, who has been married to Dr Prabhakaran Rathinam for 15 years, is worried though. Her husband is Professor and Head of the Department of Respiratory Medicine at Madurai Medical College and Government Rajaji Hospital, and while there are no cases yet in the city (at the time of going to press), it’s the tension of waiting that takes its toll. “I am not anxious that he will bring infection home, but I certainly worry about his health,” she says.