“勤務先が謝罪要求”など 追い込まれる感染者 精神的ケア課題

Psychological care issues for infected people who are forced to work

From the testimony of the parties concerned, it became clear that people infected with the new coronavirus are being mentally driven by being asked to apologize by their employer or being worried about whether or not they will move around. In some cases, women undergoing medical treatment at home commit suicide, and experts point out the importance of mental care for infected people.

A woman in her 40s who was infected with the new coronavirus and completed medical treatment at a hotel told NHK about her experience of being asked to apologize by her boss. A woman in her 40s living in the Kanto region had a sudden fever last month and underwent a PCR test, which revealed that she had been infected with the new coronavirus. She had relatively mild symptoms and she had to be treated at a hotel, but she had asthma when she was a child, so she was worried that she might get worse. It is said that he spent.

However, when she reported the infection to the welfare company she worked for, her boss said, "I was worried that other people in her company might have been transferred from you." It means that I was infected.

She said she was surprised and painful when she said, "She may die herself," she said when she was cornered. I am.

In addition, when I told him by phone that he had finished his medical treatment at the hotel, he was instructed that he should apologize to the person who caused the inconvenience when he was able to come to work before starting work. It means that he is still ordered to work from home after three weeks.

She took measures against infection, such as avoiding eating and drinking outside her home, but she realized from the interaction with her place of employment that the air that "the infected person is bad" is spreading. , She says she was shocked. The woman said, "I have to say 'I'm sorry because I'm sick. Why is the infected person bad only for the new Corona? If I don't have friends and family to support me, I'll be more cornered. I hope that the society will be one in which infected people do not have to think, "I don't want to live because I caused trouble to people around me."

Source: https://www3.nhk.or.jp/news/html/20210129/k10012838461000.html