Doctors involved in vaccination report overload and shortage of doctors

85.4% of health workers involved in the COVID-19 vaccination campaign are experiencing work overload, another 66.6% believe that the quality of medical care has decreased against the backdrop of the campaign, follows from the results of a survey conducted by the Doctor's Directory mobile application ( RBC got acquainted with its results).

More than 500,000 medical workers from Russia are registered in the Doctor's Handbook mobile application, which belongs to the Medical Information Solutions company and appeared in 2013. The creators of the application explain that a person without a medical education can register in it. The user will violate application policy if he indicates that he is a doctor, but he is not. The proportion of such participants is minimal, and, according to the developers, it does not affect the representativeness indicators. A total of 1,339 respondents from all regions of Russia took part in the study on overworking of doctors due to vaccination.

What did the doctors complain about?

In total, 81.4% of the interviewed medical workers involved in the vaccination campaign answered that they are late at work from one to three or more hours, only 18.6% of respondents leave on time. When asked about the reasons for the delay, almost 70% of the respondents answered that this is due to the implementation of planned work that is not related to vaccination. 40.4% said that the introduction of data on vaccinated people is a long process, due to which processing occurs. 42.7% of survey participants said that they stay after the end of the working day due to the requirements of management to perform planned work.