Healthcare workers demand better working conditions

 

Thousands of people gathered at their balconies and windows to applaud the frontline workers, when COVID-19 swept accross Europe in spring 2020.

Coronavirus pandemic leaves healthcare workers traumatized

Overworked, underpaid and traumatized. Health care workers around the world have borne the worst of the coronavirus pandemic. From the constant threat of infection to the daily onslaught of death. The toll has left many disillusioned and in need of urgent help themselves.

The coronavirus pandemic's long-term impact on healthcare systems

 Even as many parts of the world start to open up again, front line workers are struggling to cope with the silent toll of the COVID-19 pandemic - burnout.

Frontline healthcare workers increasingly suffer from stress and exhaustion

 

In the COVID-19 pandemic, frontline healthcare workers are having to work under particularly intense stress levels. They must work in makeshift settings created to handle the overflow of patients from intensive care units, sometimes with inadequate access to optimal protective equipment.

How many healthcare workers have died due to coronavirus?

In this global pandemic, the world's healthcare workers have taken a massive load of responsibility on their shoulders. Hundreds of thousands of healthcare workers have been infected. There's no official global death toll, because data has not been systematically collected. But more than a thousand doctors and nurses around the world are known to have died from COVID-19.

Asian American health-care workers describe racist incidents | Voices from the Pandemic

Three Asian-American medical providers on the front lines of the pandemic spoke with The Post about the racial discrimination they faced as the virus continued to spread