COVID 19 Disease: Effects on Health of Children

Mrunali Khandale

doi:10.17762/pae.v58i2.1889

Abstract

COVID-19 disease outbreak was first reported in Wuhan china and was later reported to have spread throughout the world. As a global pandemic declared by WHO in march 2020 as of dated 24th December infected patients are 74.4million and recovered 44.3million and deaths are 1.73million . This is an global emergency which forced people to go into lockdown this lockdown helped to reduce the virus lode but it also caused many consequences like it affected children far from parents and families migrated for work because of restriction for social gathering all school , colleges ,offices ,industries are shut down this made peoples to lost their jobs and also give rise to trend of work from home and study from home entire education system is now online .according to UNICEF nearly 1.5 billion children out school and some 99%children are living with restriction on movement. this isolation has caused many disruption in daily routine of every single person not only economically poor but also economically sound are also suffered .some of the working peoples lost their job and those who travelled to metro cities lost their source of income and they have to leave these cities and return to their native places because of lockdown all the district borders are closed which land them in great trouble .also they don’t have any transportation so most of the people travel by walking which made lots of adult and also children suffer because of dehydration and fatigue many suffered this also land in death of many migrants and this include some of the children .this huge migration of people from their work place to villages made impact on minds of children they have to go through lot of trouble during this travel which may cause mental trauma for them and adjusting in new life in their village is difficult for them. Halted vaccination program has impacted child health and increase chance of vaccine preventable disease . children already suffering from diseases like mental diseases has lost access to physician this impacted adversely their treatment .also blood disorders in children who require regular blood transfusion are under danger during this pandemic . the pandemic has huge impact on health care system because of increased work strain .this halted the pediatric health care .

Highlights

There are more than 2 billion children all over the world who constitute 28% population of world(UNICEF 2019) and covid 19 pandemic affected these children mentally,physically, socially, spiritually in many aspects
COVID 19 caused 1.73 M deaths these are the sudden deaths person who was fit and fine yesterday is gone which disturbs life of loved ones but this may cause on little ones who doesn’t understand what happened to them children who are depend on their parents suffer more this may cause severe mental breakdown people with small families suffer more because of child only have one or two care givers .loss of one is very disturbing for a child [1] . those children who have single parent and if he got isolated or quarantine this is inconvenient for child
Child has to live with the grief and guilt of loss of their parents. It is cause of depression,anxiety, panic disorders and phobias in adults who underwent a traumatic experiences in childhood . children’s of frontline workers like police,health workers and daily need suppliers are under huge risk of getting infection and set children in great fear of loosing their loved ones impacting on their mental health and increases chances of them to get infected

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Introduction

There are more than 2 billion children all over the world who constitute 28% population of world(UNICEF 2019) and covid 19 pandemic affected these children mentally ,physically , socially, spiritually in many aspects. Global strategy to cope against pandemic is complete stop of human contact lead to closer of all school ,collage and playgrounds ,parks etc it land people in imbalance of mental health and physical health as following - Death of loved ones due to COVID 19 affected mental health of child.

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