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● Why Do Psychological Emotions Occur?

This is mainly due to exhaustion. It’s not just usual work, but usual work plus extra
work. The availability and unavailability of PPE is an exhausting factor, and the way we
have to change in our work could also exhaust us especially due to the new services

introduced such as online, telemedicine.

Aside from all of this, the media coverage of healthcare COVID-19 clusters; the fear of

being infected and the fear of infecting others and the stigma that we suffer as we work
in the healthcare sector. Some reports from Singapore showed stigmatization of
healthcare workers (the public shunned them away due to the fear of COVID-19

infection).

This links to an element of moral injury. This came in the earlier stages of the

pandemic. We are entrusted in doing something that is not consistent with our ethics.
In some parts of the world where they are less prepared for the pandemic, the
situation is much worse.

The level of support the healthcare worker gets from the very beginning of the
pandemic and after the pandemic also place a huge role leading to psychological

emotions.