COVID-19 in Africa: care and protection for frontline healthcare workers
Abstract Medical staff caring for COVID-19 patients face mental stress, physical exhaustion, separation from families, stigma, and the pain of losing patients and colleagues. Many of them have acquired SARS-CoV-2 and some have died. In Africa, where the pandemic is escalating, there are major gaps i...
Main Authors: | Matthew F. Chersich, Glenda Gray, Lee Fairlie, Quentin Eichbaum, Susannah Mayhew, Brian Allwood, Rene English, Fiona Scorgie, Stanley Luchters, Greg Simpson, Marjan Mosalman Haghighi, Minh Duc Pham, Helen Rees |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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BMC
2020-05-01
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Series: | Globalization and Health |
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Online Access: | http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12992-020-00574-3 |
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