When Covid-19 hit SA and stigmatisation was at its peak, many healthcare workers were shunned in their communities due to fear of the virus.
Clinics were disrupted and overwhelmed during the first wave by Covid-19 patients, staff shortages and low morale due to infections among staff.
Community healthcare workers visited stable NCD patients and fed information back to professional nurses, while unstable patients continued to be seen at the clinic. In the first month of lockdown, community healthcare workers from the two clinics delivered 184,000 medication parcels to households. They also conducted community screening and testing in vulnerable communities as well as Covid-19 related health education and risk communication.
“Some patients were particularly apprehensive in the beginning of lockdown because of the fear of the virus being passed on to them,” researchers noted.
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