Psychological Effects of COVID-19 on Health Care Workers: Some Lights From Previous Pandemics

Ibrahim El Bayoumy

Professor of Public Health and Community Medicine-Tanta Faculty of Medicine, Egypt

Dr. Ibrahim El Bayoumy, Professor of Public Health and Community Medicine-Tanta Faculty of Medicine, Egypt.

Keywords: COVID-19; Mental Stress; Health Care Workers

Abstract

The mental and physical stress in treating patients during pandemics facing doctors nurses and other health care workers dealing with earlier stages of infectious disease outbreak is prominent, as they are exposed to a variety of mental health issues like insomnia, anxiety and depression. Doctors and nurses act as important force in the fight against epidemics as H1N1, SARS, Epola and finally COVID-19 in December 2019 in Wuhan, Hubei province in China that quickly spread to the whole country [1]. Doctors and nurses work under intensive pressure from the patients and from the community in order to reduce human-to human transmission in hospital and in treating patients with COVID-19 [2-5].

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