Agwu Prince, Orjiakor Charles T, Odii Aloysius, Onwujekwe Obinna
University of Nigeria Enugu Campus, Nigeria; University of Nigeria, Nigeria; University of Dundee, UK.
University of Nigeria Enugu Campus, Nigeria; University of Nigeria, Nigeria.
Int Soc Work. 2023 Jan;66(1):206-218. doi: 10.1177/00208728211073391.
COVID-19 stretched health systems, exacerbated by concerns about those that are corrupt and lack equity. Twelve (12) health workers and 12 hospital social workers across Nigeria were purposively sampled and virtually interviewed to explore unaccountability and corruption effects on COVID-19 responses. Findings show that corruption and unaccountability negatively affected responses of frontline health workers to the pandemic. Lack of social care and justice services for patients and health workers across health facilities in Nigeria worsened the negative effects. Effectively mainstreaming social care and justice services into Nigeria's healthcare led by well-trained social workers will improve the health sector via anticorruption.
新冠疫情给卫生系统带来了巨大压力,而对腐败和缺乏公平性的担忧更是雪上加霜。尼日利亚各地有目的地抽取了12名卫生工作者和12名医院社会工作者进行虚拟访谈,以探讨玩忽职守和腐败对新冠疫情应对工作的影响。研究结果表明,腐败和玩忽职守对一线卫生工作者应对疫情产生了负面影响。尼日利亚各医疗机构缺乏针对患者和卫生工作者的社会护理和司法服务,这加剧了负面影响。由训练有素的社会工作者主导,将社会护理和司法服务有效地纳入尼日利亚的医疗保健体系,将通过反腐败改善卫生部门。