Coronavirus Outbreak, Impact and Prevention

A growing volume of information and concerns are hurting worldwide mental health following the outbreak of a new coronavirus illness (COVID-19) among humans in Wuhan (China) on December 31, 2019. Global media, local and international health agencies (including the World Health Organisation), epidemiologists, virologists, and opinion-makers have all released information, recommendations, and minute-by-minute updates on COVID-19’s spread and lethality. Nonetheless, the impact of this virus on global mental health is currently overlooked, despite the fact that it poses a threat to patients, the general public, policymakers, and health organisations and teams.

Since December 2019, the Chinese city of Wuhan has been in the news due to an outbreak of febrile respiratory syndrome caused by pneumonia caused by a novel unknown coronavirus (Li et al., 2019).Globally, the outbreak is causing additional health issues like stress, worry, depressive symptoms, insomnia, denial, wrath, and dread. Collective concerns influence daily activities, the economy, preventative tactics. COVID-19 control strategies and resulting in increased morbidity and mental health needs on a worldwide scale.

“Right,roles and responsibilities of health workers, including occupational safety and health”

• Health workers’ rights and obligations, as well as the precise steps required to ensure occupational safety and health.
• Accept overall responsibility for ensuring that all essential preventative and protective actions are implemented in order to reduce occupational safety and health risks
• provide information, instruction, and training on occupational safety and health, including refresher training on infection prevention and control (IPC); use, putting on, taking off, and disposing of personal protective equipment (PPE); and provide adequate IPC and PPE supplies (masks, gloves, goggles, gowns, hand sanitizer, soap and water, cleaning supplies) 
• In sufficient quantity to those caring for suspected or confirmed COVID-19 patients, so that workers do not incur infection.provide necessary tools to screen, triage, test, and treat patients, as well as disseminate IPC information with patients and the public; acquaint workers with technological updates on COVID-19;
• Ensure enough security.offer a blame-free environment in which health personnel can report occurrences such as blood or body fluid exposures from the respiratory system, or incidences of violence, and take immediate action, including victim assistance.

“Health workers rights include that employers and managers in health facilities:”

Make connections between workplace safety, patient safety, quality improvement, and infection prevention and control programmes.Incorporate health and safety skills in personal and patient safety at all levels of health worker education and training. Health care licensure and certification standards should include measures for health worker and patient safety. Integrate incident reporting and learning mechanisms for both staff and patient safety. Integrate patient safety, health worker safety, and quality of care indicators into an integrated health information system.

Develop and implement national occupational health and safety programmes for health workers in accordance with national policies.Review and, if necessary, modernise national policies and laws governing occupational health and safety to ensure that all health workers are protected from harm at work.At the national and facility levels, appoint accountable officers with authority over occupational health and safety for health workers.Develop occupational health and safety standards, recommendations, and codes of practise.Strengthen intersectoral collaboration on health worker and patient safety, including gender, diversity, and all occupational categories, with appropriate worker and management participation.

What Health Workers do ?

Even if the impact of this outbreak on global mental health is not recorded and measured, prior coronavirus illnesses may provide similar information. Patients were treated with hemodialysis in an isolated environment during the Korean MERS-CoV outbreak in 2015. After two weeks of isolation, patients reported lower hematocrit, calcium, and phosphorus levels. Furthermore, when compared to the controls’ group, the levels of circulating cell-free genomic DNA (ccf-gDNA) and circulating cell-free mitochondrial DNA (ccf-mtDNA), which are indicators of psychophysical stress in humans, have shown a significant delay in normalisation during hemodialysis in patients. 

This suggests that medical seclusion during the Korean MERS outbreak resulted in a significant level of stress among hemodialyzed patients (Kim et al., 2019). Individuals with prior vulnerable mental health status should receive mental health support and follow-up even six months after being released from isolation. Accurate information, as well as sufficient supplies for the subjects, such as food, clothing, and lodging, should be provided (Lin et al., 2007).

After dealing with traumatic communal events, health care personnel may develop psychological problems. Psychiatric symptoms were reported by 27% of health-care personnel in Singapore during.

Conclusion

A growing volume of information and concerns are hurting worldwide mental health following the outbreak of a new coronavirus illness among humans in Wuhan on December 31, 2019. Global media, local and international health agencies (including the World Health Organisation), epidemiologists, virologists, and opinion-makers have all released information, recommendations, and minute-by-minute updates on COVID-19’s spread and lethality. Nonetheless, the impact of this virus on global mental health is currently overlooked, despite the fact that it poses a threat to patients, the general public, policymakers, and health organisations and teams. COVID-19 control strategies and resulting in increased morbidity and mental health needs on a worldwide scale.”Right,roles and responsibilities of health workers, including occupational safety and health” Health workers’ rights and obligations, as well as the precise steps required to ensure occupational safety and health.