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View all search resultsMore than 200 health workers have yet to receive the promised financial incentives for their work on the frontlines of Indonesia's pandemic response throughout 2022, independent data initiative LaporCOVID-19 has found.
A deadly second wave of COVID-19 has taken a devastating toll on the country's doctors, nurses and other health workers, many of who are becoming ill from overwork or demoralized from watching their colleagues fall to the virus.
Accompanying someone with chronic disease has never been easy. It is physically exhausting and psychologically draining, both for ordinary people and professional health workers. Life partners and caretakers share their stories.
As long as local transmission still occurred and resulted in a high number of daily confirmed COVID-19 cases, doctors and other medical workers would continue to face a high risk of contracting the virus, said Indonesian Medical Association (IDI) spokesperson Halik Malik.
As Indonesia strives to get on top of the ever-climbing number of COVID-19 cases, 82 percent of physicians, nurses and other healthcare workers across the country have been suffering from moderate levels of burnout and chronic mental and physical exhaustion caused by prolonged and excessive stress, a recent survey has revealed.
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