Healthcare for routine cases

IN light of the Covid-19 pandemic, it is prudent to highlight the roles of allied health and supporting staff who are working shoulder to shoulder with doctors and nurses to maintain primary care services.

From the administrator and clerk to the medical assistant and paramedic, lab technician, pharmacist and pharmacy assistant, and ambulance driver, dietician, physiotherapist to the janitor and cleaner, these are people who are at risk of overwork and burnout, more exposed to getting sick and face the occupational stress of dealing with illness and death on a daily basis.