You can keep Zoom, we prefer face-to-face counselling: health workers

Healthcare workers have an ethos of soldiering on during hard times, but in-house interventions have been positive

28 March 2021 - 20:49 By sipokazi fokazi

Virtual medical and psychological consultations have become a standard practice since the emergence of the Covid-19 pandemic, but this new normal is yet to be embraced by some healthcare workers who clearly still prefer traditional face-to-face consultations. This has become evident at a Tygerberg Hospital pilot programme that provides psychological support to front-line workers, which only attracted support after it was it switched from virtual to a walk-in facility...

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