Commentary

VOLUME: 36 | ISSUE: 2S | Jun 24, 2020 | PAGE: (100 - 101) | DOI: 10.24911/BioMedica//BioMedica/5-395

Handling COVID-19 Patient or COVID-19 Sample: What's More Stressful?


Authors: Hira Kareem


Authors

Hira Kareem

Senior Demonstrator, Department of Pathology, Services Institute of Medical Sciences, Lahore-Pakistan.

Publication History

Received: May 14, 2020

Revised: May 20, 2020

Accepted: June 18, 2020

Published: June 24, 2020


Abstract


People have suffered both physically and mentally from threatening situation of the emerging cases of Coronavirus in Pakistan. The health professionals who are directly involved in performing various blood tests on the samples of COVID-19 patient are almost equally in danger zone to get infected as much as the health care workers who treat them. The environmental contamination is higher in the hospitals and working medical staff should practice strict protective measures to overcome this psychological stress or mental trauma as it sub-optimizes a person’s working capacity.


Keywords: COVID-19, Health care workers, Contaminated specimen, Mental stress.


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Hira Kareem. Handling COVID-19 Patient or COVID-19 Sample: What's More Stressful?. BioMedica. 2020; 24 (June 2020): 100-101. doi:10.24911/BioMedica//BioMedica/5-395

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Hira Kareem. Handling COVID-19 Patient or COVID-19 Sample: What's More Stressful?. BioMedica. 2020; 24 (June 2020): 100-101. doi:10.24911/BioMedica//BioMedica/5-395

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Hira Kareem. Handling COVID-19 Patient or COVID-19 Sample: What's More Stressful?. BioMedica. (2020), [cited April 29, 2024]; 24 (June 2020): 100-101. doi:10.24911/BioMedica//BioMedica/5-395

Harvard Style

Hira Kareem (2020) Handling COVID-19 Patient or COVID-19 Sample: What's More Stressful?. BioMedica, 24 (June 2020): 100-101. doi:10.24911/BioMedica//BioMedica/5-395

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Hira Kareem. "Handling COVID-19 Patient or COVID-19 Sample: What's More Stressful?." 24 (2020), 100-101. doi:10.24911/BioMedica//BioMedica/5-395

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Hira Kareem. "Handling COVID-19 Patient or COVID-19 Sample: What's More Stressful?." 24.June 2020 (2020), 100-101. Print. doi:10.24911/BioMedica//BioMedica/5-395

APA (American Psychological Association) Style

Hira Kareem (2020) Handling COVID-19 Patient or COVID-19 Sample: What's More Stressful?. , 24 (June 2020), 100-101. doi:10.24911/BioMedica//BioMedica/5-395