Commentary
Volume: 36 | Issue: 2S | Published: Jun 24, 2020 | Pages: 100 - 101
Handling COVID-19 Patient or COVID-19 Sample: What's More Stressful?
Authors: Hira Kareem
Article Info
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.
