Exploring the status of non-communicable disease care during the COVID-19 pandemic in 13 countries
South Africa
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Exploringthestatusofnon-communicablediseasecare
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Nasheeta Peer, Tshephang Mashiane, Michel Oris, Kibachio Joseph Mwangi, Sugitha Sureshkumar, Andre-Pascal Kengne
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Jan 12, 2024
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Jan 12, 2024
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| Value | Category | Cases | |
|---|---|---|---|
| C13(a) | 1 |
3.8%
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| Due to the pandemic, many patients have been unable to or have been hesitant to come to hospitals/clinics for follow-ups on their disease or condition. This resulted in mismanagement as it is difficult to monitor and pick up problems earliers on in a patients care. This is detrimental to some patients as regular monitoring is important to make sure they are managing their conditions effectively to prevent relapses (egg malnutrition in paediatrics/adults, cancer patients,uncontrolled diabetes/hypertension/other chronic diseases of lifestyle. | 1 |
3.8%
|
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| Hopefully health systems will be more prepared is a similar situation arises in the future, because I believe quite a bit of damage was done to patients themselves and to continuity of care. | 1 |
3.8%
|
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| I think NCD care should not be compromised regardless of pandemic as poor NCD care may worsen the pandmeic outcomes. | 1 |
3.8%
|
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| I think our healthcare system will never learn from its mistakes. | 1 |
3.8%
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| I think that this pandemic shwoed/warned us about the risk that policies during a epidemic/pandemic pose to care continously of NCD,perventative medicine and non-essential care. | 1 |
3.8%
|
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| I think the pandemic may have played a role in highliting how broken our helath care system is. I hope it has prompted the development of better strategies to deal with crisis in the health system for future pandemics. | 1 |
3.8%
|
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| I think we are better equiped and knowlageable with the pandemic and can improve on the quality of care and management we render to NCD patients. Yes, when the pandemic started NCD patients were somewhat "neglected" because all attention was given to this new deadly disease (Covid-19). Now we know and have seen better. | 1 |
3.8%
|
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| It has changed patient health seeking behaivour, more patients will be presenting with more complex conditions. | 1 |
3.8%
|
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| Less time with doctors and allied staff to educate,answer questions,arrange follow-up consult. | 1 |
3.8%
|
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| Most NCD follow-up and cases have resumed back to normal, so shouldn’t have much of an impact further. | 1 |
3.8%
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| NCD care will further be neglected. | 1 |
3.8%
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| Once the frenzy of the pandemic had died down and more people have received their vaccines. As healthcare providers we can place more focus on patients suffering from NCDs. Patients can go back to getting holistic medical services/management. | 1 |
3.8%
|
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| Pandemic highlighted the need to improve and strenghten preventative measures for NCDs. | 1 |
3.8%
|
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| Prioritize health literacy to encourage compliance and adherence to treatment. | 1 |
3.8%
|
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| Proper measures and adequate guidelines needs to be shared to everyone. | 1 |
3.8%
|
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| Should there be future lockdown. | 1 |
3.8%
|
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| Taking into consideration all the funds contributed in the pandemic, the suffering from shortage of medicines for the treatment of NCD patients will worsen. Some patient symptoms have worsen and this progression requires more care. | 1 |
3.8%
|
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| The notion that if people present to hospitals they will contract covid 19 needs to be addressed with the public and removed so that people are not afraid to present themselves for follow-ups and for queries. | 2 |
7.7%
|
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| There needs to be considering pf patients with NCD especially when there is national/global crisis is to ensure adequate care for these types of patients and reduce risk of getting any communicable disease. | 1 |
3.8%
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| There will be more NCD complications as most people with NCDs were not properly follwed-up during the pandemic. | 1 |
3.8%
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| We have definitely learnt a lot from the pandemic | 1 |
3.8%
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| although it has been a very difficult time, it seems to me that services have more or less returned to normal | 1 |
3.8%
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| no_data | 2 |
7.7%
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Warning: these figures indicate the number of cases found in the data file. They cannot be interpreted as summary statistics of the population of interest.