FACTORS AFFECTING HEALTHCARE WORKERS OF NATIONAL HOSPITAL OF TROPICAL DISEASES AND NINH BINH PROVINCIAL GENERAL HOSPITAL UNDER COVID-19 PANDEMIC

Trần Thị Len1,, Lê Anh Tuấn2, Bùi Thanh Thúy2, Phạm Anh Tùng2, Trần Thơ Nhị3, Trần Thị Thanh Hương3,4
1 National Hospital of Obstetrics and Gynecology
2 National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology
3 Hanoi Medical University
4 National Cancer Institute, K Hospital

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Abstract

A qualitative study using in-depth interviews with staff working at National Hospital of Tropical Diseases (NHTD) and Ninh Binh Provincial General Hospital when the hospitals providing treatment services for COVID-19 patients in 2020 to explore the positive and negative impacts on healthcare workers during the COVID-19 pandemic. Factors positively affected the healthcare workers were responsibility and ethics; professional issues; social relationship such as support from family, colleagues, patient cooperation and government policy and social support. Factors negatively impacted were family having baby; non-professional staff and stigma. It is necessary to further strengthen psychological and material support for employees and their family members to improve the quality of work and spiritual life of medical staff during the anti-epidemic period.

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