26. The situation of communical health worker participation against Covid-19 in some key provinces in 2021, 2022

Khong Van Cuong, Do Nam Khanh, Truong Hoang Anh, Le Minh Giang

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The study aims to describe the current status of health workers related to knowledge training, personal protective equipment, tasks, psychological problems and rate of infection when participated in COVID-19 prevention and control program at the commune level in some key provinces in 2021, 2022. This is a cross-sectional descriptive study . The study results show that, in 2021, the proportion of commune health workers receiving training in knowledge, diagnosis, classification, prevention and treatment of COVID-19 disease and personal protection before participating in the fight against the pandemic accounted more than 90%. By 2022, the rate of re-training was quite low. The percentage of commune health workers being equipped with medical equipment by the local accounted for 75% - 100% while the support for food and water, transportation waslow. The rate of anxiety about being infected with COVID-19 gradually decreased from 78% to 22.2% through the period of participating in the fight against the pandemic; the rate of anxiety about shortage of masks gradually decreased from 49.5% to none. The majority of commune health workers had been diagnosed with COVID-19 (99.4%), 96.3% of health workers with COVID-19 have symptoms, 35.8% have persistent COVID-19 symptoms, the majority of health workers have been vaccinated against COVID-19 (56.7% received 02 doses of vaccine).

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