Covid-19: the pandemic of abuse against health personnel in times of pandemic

Abstract

Discrimination and, physical, verbal and psychological attacks on health personnel increased with the COVID-19 pandemic. As examples of this situation, are the experiences lived by multiple professionals from different branches of health, who are discriminated on the streets, on public transport, in supermarkets and even in their own places of residence. They are victims of a strong stigmatization, on several occasions they have materialized in physical and verbal aggressions, due to, the commons people associate any type of contact with health personnel, increases their chances of contagion. María del Carmen Montenegro explains, from the UNAM psychology faculty, “this reaction by some people points to beliefs (which in some cases start from a reality principle) and to the irrationality to face them, since they (medical personnel), symbolically represent the disease itself and the cure, and the terror that this evil and stigma implies is uncontrollable and generates the most interesting beliefs as a social process” (1).