A study carried out by the Gorgas Commemorative Institute found that about 50% of health workers present nervousness and anxiety, in addition to having changes in their behavior due to Covid-19.
The report was carried out based on a survey applied, in Juan Díaz, San Francisco and Tocumen, to 300 health workers and seeks to identify the practices, knowledge and attitudes that favor or discourage the transmission of Covid-19 on the front line. care (health workers). However, the Metropolitan Director of Health, Israel Cedeño, assured that it is planned to extend this type of survey to the entire population.
“We are going to extend the study to the population in general, we are going to do some surveys to find out how many people have been left with some type of sequelae,” he pointed out.