Part 1: Bibliographic Entry: National Library of Medicine: Haileamlak A. “The impact of COVID-19 on health and health systems.” Ethiop J Health Sci. 2021 Nov;31(6):1073-1074. doi: 10.4314/ejhs.v31i6.1. PMID: 35392335; PMCID: PMC8968362.
Part 2: Terminology/Keywords:
- COVID-19
- Healthcare and Health Systems
- Impact
- Global pandemic
- Essential Services
- Infections
- Medicine
Part 3: Précis
This article written by Abraham Haileamlak, doctor of medicine, professor of Pediatrics and Child Health, dives into the impact of how COVID-19 affected doctors and people working in healthcare and as well as hospitals where they were taking care of millions of patients that got sick from covid-19 and passed due to it. I know due to COVID-19, it was very devastating for healthcare workers, doctors and nurses to see patients suffer and pass on from the covid-19 virus, a big impact on everyone and families around the world. Stated from the article, “The most common reasons mentioned by for critical gaps or reduced services during COVID-19 were shifting of health care workers to support COVID-19 services, cancellations of planned treatments, decrease in public transport, loss of income to pay for services and limited utilization and high rates of morbidity and mortality among health care workers, were another reason leading to staff shortages.” It provides a pretty good explanation of why healthcare resources and services for covid-19 and sick patients include mostly transportation resources and less money than the healthcare workers, resulting in a shortage of medicines and hospital resources.
Part 4: Reflection
During the covid virus between 2019 and 2020, my family and I were affected by covid-19, which is why I chose this topic. Despite the fact that I find this topic interesting, when it comes to COVID-19, it’s a very important topic to examine, especially when it comes to people’s health. All of us should be aware of the risks and how to protect ourselves and our loved ones. Besides providing support for those affected, we should also provide them with the resources that they need to cope with the situation in the best way possible.
Part 5: Quotables
“Similarly, in Ethiopia, following the first COVID-19 reported case in March 2020, the health system was challenged heavily. The ever increasing COVID-19 cases demanded reshuffling health care workers and repurposing health care facilities.”
“The COVID-19 pandemic, in addition to the direct disease burden, it posed a significant risk of indirect morbidity and mortality from other preventable and treatable diseases as a result of essential health services disruption.”
“The current issue of the Ethiopian Journal of Health Sciences, the sixth regular issue for the year 2021, contains an editorial, twenty-five original articles and two case reports focusing on various topics.”
“A significant level of health service delivery was impacted, especially, during the early times owing to the steady spread of the virus across all settings. It posed challenge on health human resource management, facility utilization and medical supply management.”
“The Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), the global pandemic, causing Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Corona virus -2 (SARS CoV-2), has devastated the world resulting in several million infections and close to five million deaths till late October 2021.”
