CoVid-19 its Impact on Healthcare Workers and the Need for Occupational Healthcare Provision

Internal Med Res Open J, Volume 5(2): 1–2, 2020 The world woke up in November 2019[1] to the arrival of a new “enemy” in its parade of infectious pathogens, firstly in China and in an ominous fashion, now across the globe – the coronavirus, named CoVid-19 by the WHO [2,3]. A dreaded new pandemic [4] has now announced its presence, swept through the globe with an unimaginable speed [5] and savagely wreaked havocto healthcare systems, financial sectors and lives [6] across the world.It has disrupted life as we knew it before the crisis, to an extent we have never imagined possible. The magnitude of this disaster and its multifaceted ramifications, together with its speed of spread [5] is a new and novel experience in history. Life cannot be the same again.