Keywords
Mental health
Discrimination
Aggression
Healthcare personnel
How to Cite
Abstract
Within six months only of its existence as result of the ongoing pandemic of COVID-19 caused by the SARSCoV2, various safety measures have been applied in order to offer both protection and attention to the worldwide population. Healthcare professionals have been making great efforts to fight the disease on a hospital care level but paradoxically, acts of aggressive discrimination have been presented towards the health personnel, which mainly include: denying services, threats, and physical damage as well as patrimonial. This paper’s purpose is to describe some of the elements that help understand the mass social discriminative behaviour showing up towards healthcare workers. Healthcare personnel and general population’s mental health states during this pandemic are both described, as well as background checks of aggression towards healthcare workers predating the present pandemic, allowing a bigger picture to be examined, with the intention of establishing new general guidelines to prevent future acts of discrimination.
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