Pictures & Photographs

Healthcare workers have been the backbone of providing assistance and care during the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, which has infected and killed millions of people around the world. Images of healthcare workers, in different countries, have been taken around the world, showcasing the day-to-day obligations they are carrying out, while at often times, risking their own health. Healthcare workers have had diversified roles in ensuring equitable care for the health of all, given the various interdisciplinary challenges that have been exposed over the duration of this pandemic, that have implicated human lives exponentially.

 

Some of the duties, from the images presented, that healthcare workers have been tasked with during this pandemic are:

• conducting COVID-19 tests in various forms, for all age demographic residents in various communities, centres, clinics, drive-thru testings and other facilities, to ensure safeness from getting ill or if sick, take precautions to isolate, and to keep others safe

• implement effective public health measures to ensure spread of COVID-19 is minimal and have less people get sick, by avoiding adding to the overwhelming pressure on healthcare systems

• provide effective care in hospitals to patients that are sick with the disease, with the implementation of adequate health resources to support their health conditions

• provide emotional support to patients in hospitals or other healthcare environments, due to their inability to receive any from personal families, for the greater risk of spreading the illness

• implement vaccinations towards all age demographics to ensure broader immunity from COVID-19 and saving lives