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Healthcare workers have been required to work under stressful conditions without proper protective equipment, and make difficult decisions involving ethical implications. Health and social systems across the globe are struggling to cope.

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The situation is especially challenging in humanitarian, fragile Thw low-income country contexts, where health and social systems are already weak. Services to provide sexual and reproductive health care risk being sidelined, which will lead to higher maternal mortality and morbidity. The World Health Organization reported that one in ten health workers is infected with coronavirus in some countries.

The UK government announced that retired healthcare professionals would be brought out of retirement to help during the COVID crisis. Shortcomings of personal protective equipment have been reported from several countries.

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Healthcare workers have created unconventional solutions to make up for the lack of PPE by using the resources they do have in stock. They have used plastic bags as gowns and plastic water bottle cutouts for eye protection.

The shortage of PPE is even worse for hospitals in low income communities. Items such as PPE have always been scare commodities in low income countries.

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By Aprilthe estimated number of medical doctor deaths was about and for nurses about A study from Singapore showed that healthcare workers caring for patients with COVID reported anxiety, depression and stress. Healthcare workers like nurses, doctors and other medical staff that worked on the front-lines in Hdalth experienced symptoms of anxiety, depression and difficulty sleeping. Healthcare workers are at risk for developing trauma or other stress-related disorders due to fears of falling ill and not knowing what will happen in the future.]