LEVEL 4 / POST 7 (WEEK 9): THEMED / FREE POST
In this blog I would be interested to touch on the topic of health in times of pandemic, particularly mental health in primary health care officials, who have had to be in these difficult processes that have been carried out in Chile the main managers of vaccination against the covid, have been the officials of the cesfam, hospitals, among others. The main attention had to be put aside in order to carry out the process of "herd immunisation", which mainly seeks to reduce the amount of occupancy of emergency (UCI) beds, contagions and other factors. Very little has been said about the mental health of officials, where they have collapsed with workload and had to be the visible face of this whole process, where people are usually not empathised with the personal. It would be important to start talking about the mental health of the so-called "first line of health" who have had to adapt to these difficult times, having to be par of protocols and task totally different...