Can Developing Countries Handle the Mental Burden Due to the Lockdown Situation? Understanding the uncertainty and management of COVID-19 pandemic

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Jyotsna Pandey
Shohini Chakraborty
Imon Chakraborty
Pratik Ghosal
Neelam Singh
Dr. Sukanta Majumdar

Abstract

Background: Coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic can be referred to as a life-threatening war where every country is fighting with an invisible untold enemy. Realizing the disease severity and managing the prevention is crucial in current situations. Hence, it is time to follow the lockdown protocol until the situation improves worldwide.


Method: We have searched all the possible validated resources such as WHO, governmental data-sharing portal, news media, blogs, and existing empirical studies. We identified the significant inputs from social media platforms provided by healthcare entrepreneurs, clinicians, and interrelated different domain experts. Here we qualitatively narrated an in-depth understanding of the phenomena and proposed a few steps to deal with the mental burden in developing country context.


Result: There must be some effective strategy to reduce the mental burden and availability of the health consultancy services continuously to deal with such vulnerable situations. Telehealth is one such solution in a developed country where the healthcare system is well equipped to offer such services.


Conclusions: Here, we have presented a few proposed steps that can be adapted/practiced dealing with a similar situation in developing and densely populated nation like India. This approach may help to deal with such emergencies and challenges for healthcare management in lockdown conditions.

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Pandey, J., Chakraborty, S., Chakraborty, I., Ghosal, P., Singh, N., & Majumdar, D. S. (2020). Can Developing Countries Handle the Mental Burden Due to the Lockdown Situation? Understanding the uncertainty and management of COVID-19 pandemic. Asia Pacific Journal of Health Management, 15(3), 72-79. https://doi.org/10.24083/apjhm.v15i3.401
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Jyotsna Pandey, St. Xavier’s College, Kolkata, West Bengal, India

Department of Microbiology, St. Xavier’s College, Kolkata, West Bengal, India

Shohini Chakraborty, University of Gour Banga, Malda, West Bengal, India.

Microbiology and Microbial Biotechnology Laboratory, Department of Botany,
University of Gour Banga, Malda, West Bengal, India.

Imon Chakraborty, UQ-IITD Academy of Research, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India

UQ-IITD Academy of Research, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India

Pratik Ghosal, University of Wroclaw, Wroclaw, Poland.

Department of Computer Science, University of Wroclaw, Wroclaw, Poland.

Neelam Singh, Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India.

School of Physical and Decision Science, Department of Physics,
Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India.

Dr. Sukanta Majumdar, University of Gour Banga, Malda, West Bengal, India

Microbiology and Microbial Biotechnology Laboratory, Department of Botany,
University of Gour Banga, Malda, West Bengal, India