COVID-19 in Africa: care and protection for frontline healthcare workers

• Main Authors: Matthew F. Chersich (Author), Glenda Gray (Author), Lee Fairlie (Author), Quentin Eichbaum (Author), Susannah Mayhew (Author), Brian Allwood (Author), Rene English (Author), Fiona Scorgie (Author), Stanley Luchters (Author), Greg Simpson (Author), Marjan Mosalman Haghighi (Author), Minh Duc Pham (Author), Helen Rees (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2020-05-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Medical staff caring for COVID-19 patients face mental stress, physical exhaustion, separation from families, stigma, and the pain of losing patients and colleagues. Many of them have acquired SARS-CoV-2 and some have died. In Africa, where the pandemic is escalating, there are major gaps i...