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. 2021 Jun 7;43(2):e273-e274.
doi: 10.1093/pubmed/fdaa232.

Wounded healers: a call for spiritual care towards healthcare professionals in time of COVID-19 pandemic

Philip Joseph D Sarmiento  1
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Wounded healers: a call for spiritual care towards healthcare professionals in time of COVID-19 pandemic

Philip Joseph D Sarmiento. J Public Health (Oxf). .

Abstract

In recent correspondences and articles published, the role of religious and spiritual interventions has been discussed for the attention of the medical community in the time of COVID-19 pandemic and part of these interventions is to provide spiritual care. Attention has been given to provide spiritual care among COVID-19 patients. However, there is also a dire need to offer spiritual care towards healthcare professionals because they, too, are 'wounded healers'. This paper discusses the urgent call for the medical and spiritual communities to come up with comprehensive spiritual care programme for healthcare professionals so that they may attain spiritual well-being as they serve in the frontlines, risking their lives and providing spiritual care to patients especially in this trying times of the pandemic as a public health crisis.

Keywords: COVID-19; healthcare professionals; public health; spiritual care; wounded healers.

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