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Spanish Study: New Pandemic Threatens World after Coronavirus


Tue 06 Apr 2021 | 09:43 AM
Ahmed Moamar

 

A new Spanish study warns that a more fierce pandemic will threaten the world after the termination of the Coronavirus (COVID-19).

The authors of the study urge the concerned authorities to take care and introduce suitable measurements to confront the upcoming threat.

The study was prepared by experts in many fields at the  Barcelona Institute for World  Health.

They stressed that the new pandemic will take the form of psychic problems across the world.

The Spanish experts shed light on the tendencies of mental and psychic diseases that appear over the coming period as those ailments were abused by many mechanisms at the same time along with the need to apply urgent measurements to handle these disorders.

The study revealed that the economic costs resulted from psychic problems hit $ 1 trillion in the world annually.

More than 85% of the patients with psychic or mental diseases couldn't receive treatment in the low and medium-income countries.

The psychic pandemic leads to unprecedented crises in the world according to    Xinhua, a Chinese news agency.

The COVID-19    left a destructive print on people's health, economic stability, their role in work, personal target across the world, especially on those in the most-hit countries by the pandemic.

Factors such as the alternation of role inside families, family violence, isolation, loneliness, chagrin due to loss of family members or friends, public panic, stress, and post-infection trauma cause to deepen this crisis.

The study indicates that 30% to 60% of patients who caught the Coronavirus suffer from disorders in their central and peripheral nervous system which causes various problems.

Hallucination is depicted as the sharpest and frequent psychic and nervous disorders that hurt patients with COVID-19.

Also, other psychic disturbances like depression and anxiety invade this category of patients.

Experts of the Barcelona Institute for World Health call for adopting strategies for social protection to fight problems resulted from unemployment, unexpected loss of relatives, isolation, loneness in addition to providing basic services and funding the needy families.