IMPACT OF COVID 19 ON HEALTH SECTOR

Abstract

The Covid 19 outbreak has turned the world upside down by affecting from individual's life style to a country's economy. It doesn't leave medical sector too. The corona outbreak reshaped the medical systems all over the world as this pandemic proved the fragility of medical systems and the necessity for reconstruction of medical sector and to improvise the facilities and care provided to the patients.This article throws light on the impact of Covid - 19 on medical sector.The pandemic has deeply affected the live styles of health care workers.The increase in work pressure,changes in work time, inadequacy of personal protective equipments, higher risk of exposure to infection, treating the stigmatized patients have profoundly increased their stress levels.The fact is that the infection rate is more among the medical professionals than the common public. Hence health care workers are affected physically as well as psychologically due to this pandemic.Being away from family and friends made them to lose their personal connectivity with the society and has affected their social well being. Though pharmaceutical industries are benefitted by the pandemic due to the increased production of aprons, gloves, sanitizers, they are also stressed due to the process of continuous research to discover vaccines to overcome this outbreak.Unlike other sectors,private health providers are having major drawback financially with lesser patients and low number of surgeries than before.Patients with non Covid diseases suffer greatly as their periodic consultations with their physicians were not possible.This caused a dilemma in taking medicines and is unable to know the prognosis of the disease. So the patients are physically affected and also stressed. Thus the impact of Covid 19 on medical industry is that it is going to revolutionize the medical industry thoroughly