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together, able to greet everyone, and to be able to connect with all levels of healthcare
workers.

Aside from doing this together, we need to know that we are doing this for the nation,
for our family and our population. All forms of negative feelings should be put aside.
We can continue to educate the public to a certain extent.

Dr. Ravi: I think Dr. Rostam has spoken about stigma involving other people. What I
would like to continue is to discuss healthcare workers’ stigma towards other

healthcare workers’ stigma, which is a real thing. It gets steers up from time to time
among colleagues from the same department or even in other departments or other
hospitals. This can happen on a day-to-day basis. A lot of people still don’t know

much about the virus and the knowledge about the virus is evolving. The fact that the
misinformation that spreads, it actually fuels the stigma. Healthcare workers should at
least be informed. It is important to educate all healthcare workers on how COVID-19

actually spreads and its precautions in hospital or at unit level. When incidences of
stigma are reported in the healthcare workplace, it should be reported and actions

have to be taken. It is not to be punitive to the person who is stigmatizing the
healthcare workers but to educate them. There should be avenues for people to act on
(i.e. feedback and management) when any form of stigma happened to them.