Healthcare workers during the COVID‐19 pandemic: Experiences of doctors and nurses in Bangladesh

Hussain, Mehdi; Begum, Tahmina; Batul, Syeda A; Tui, Nastaran N; Islam, Nadia; Hussain, Bashir

doi:10.1002/hpm.3154

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“…In LMICs, like the Philippines, community health workers in addition to their regular tasks, bore the responsibilities for undertaking COVID-19 surveillance, contact tracing and monitoring individuals in quarantine and isolation, and yet many of them lacked adequate tools like PPE to do their jobs effectively and to mitigate their own risks of contracting COVID-19 (65,88). Some health workers, like those in Bangladesh improvised to survive this ordeal by disinfecting masks for reuse, but this measure was not enough or ideal (110).…”

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Barriers to COVID-19 Health Products in Low-and Middle-Income Countries During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Rapid Systematic Review and Evidence Synthesis

Boro

Stoll

2022

Front. Public Health

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IntroductionThe coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has intensified the urgency in addressing pressing global health access challenges and has also laid bare the pervasive structural and systemic inequities that make certain segments of society more vulnerable to the tragic consequences of the disease. This rapid systematic review analyses the barriers to COVID-19 health products in low-and middle-income countries (LMICs). It does so from the canon of global health equity and access to medicines by proposing an access to health products in low-and middle-income countries framework and typology adapted to underscore the complex interactive and multiplicative nature and effects of barriers to health products and their root cause as they coexist across different levels of society in LMICs.MethodsModified versions of the Joanna Briggs Institute (JBI) reviewers' manual for evidence synthesis of systematic reviews and the PRISMA-ScR framework were used to guide the search strategy, identification, and screening of biomedical, social science, and gray literature published in English between 1 January 2020 and 30 April 2021.ResultsThe initial search resulted in 5,956 articles, with 72 articles included in this review after screening protocol and inclusion criteria were applied. Thirty one percent of the articles focused on Africa. The review revealed that barriers to COVID-19 health products were commonly caused by market forces (64%), the unavailability (53%), inaccessibility (42%), and unaffordability (35%), of the products, incongruent donors' agenda and funding (33%) and unreliable health and supply systems (28%). They commonly existed at the international and regional (79%), health sectoral (46%), and national cross-sectoral [public policy] (19%) levels. The historical heritage of colonialism in LMICs was a commonly attributed root cause of the barriers to COVID-19 health products in developing countries.ConclusionThis review has outlined and elaborated on the various barriers to health products that must be comprehensively addressed to mount a successful global, regional, national and subnational response to present and future epidemics and pandemics in LMICs.

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Barriers to COVID-19 Health Products in Low-and Middle-Income Countries During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Rapid Systematic Review and Evidence Synthesis

Boro

Stoll

2022

Front. Public Health

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“…A Chinese study showed 3000 HCWs became infected (3.8%) with five deaths by early February 2020 [ 3 ]. This rate spiked to 10.5% in Italy in late April, and 157 HCW deaths were confirmed in England till early May 2020 [ 4 – 7 ]. In Bangladesh, among frontlines COVID-19 fighters, the highest mortality rate was observed in HCWs [ 8 ].…”

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Quality of life among health care workers with and without prior COVID-19 infection in Bangladesh

Rahman

Sagar

Dalal

et al. 2022

BMC Health Serv Res

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Background Health care workers have been facing difficulties in coping with the COVID-19 infection from the beginning. The study aimed to compare Quality of Life (QOL) among health care workers (HCWs) with and without prior COVID-19 disease. Methods This study was conducted from July 2020 to January 2021 among 444 HCWs. We randomly interviewed 3244 participants for our earlier nationwide survey from a list of COVID-19 positive cases after their recovery, and we found 222 HCWs among the respondents. We randomly chose 222 HCWs unaffected by COVID as a comparison group from our selected hospitals. We measured QOL using World Health Organization’s WHOQOL-BREF tool. Physical, psychological, environmental, and social ties were the four areas assessed on a 5-point Likert scale where a higher score suggests better QOL. Due to pandemic restrictions, we used telephonic interviews for data collection. Results A higher QOL score was observed in HCWs with prior COVID-19 infection in all four domains than HCWs without previous COVID-19 conditions. Comorbidity was negatively associated with QOL scores of the physical (p = 0.001) and (p < 0.001) and psychological (p = 0.05, and (p < 0.05) domains for non-COVID and COVID-affected groups, respectively. Current smoking was significantly associated with lower psychological (p = 0.019) and environmental (p = 0.007) QOL scores among HCWs with prior COVID-19 infection. Hospitalization history due to COVID infection was a contributing factor for lower physical QOL scores (p = 0.048). Environmental (p = 0.016) QOL scores were significantly associated with the monthly income in the prior COVID-19 infection group, and physical scores were significantly associated (p = 0.05) with a monthly income in the non-COVID group. Conclusion Governmental and non-governmental stakeholders should focus on potentially modifiable factors to improve health care workers’ quality of life.

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“…Among all the frontline service providers during Covid, the highest rate of death was observed for doctors in Bangladesh. Hussain et al (2021) conducted research using semi-structured questionnaire to depict the issues faced in ‘Priority Intervention Areas’ (PIA) during Covid pandemic and the summary findings of the author have been given in Table 1 . The result revealed that both doctors and nurses did not get sufficient unsealed PPE (Personal Protective Equipments).…”

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Analysis of the health, economic and environmental impacts of COVID-19: The Bangladesh perspective

Gautam

Setu

Khan

et al. 2022

Geosystems and Geoenvironment

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Healthcare workers during the COVID‐19 pandemic: Experiences of doctors and nurses in Bangladesh

Cited by 23 publications

References 13 publications

Barriers to COVID-19 Health Products in Low-and Middle-Income Countries During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Rapid Systematic Review and Evidence Synthesis

Barriers to COVID-19 Health Products in Low-and Middle-Income Countries During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Rapid Systematic Review and Evidence Synthesis

Quality of life among health care workers with and without prior COVID-19 infection in Bangladesh

Analysis of the health, economic and environmental impacts of COVID-19: The Bangladesh perspective

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