Healthcare team coordination at the Mali Hospital face the psychological difficulties of COVID+ patients

The COVID-19 pandemic crisis has accentuated the problems that fragmented health care systems face to adapt their actions to respond with coordinated services. Public hospitals were brought to the forefront early on in the fight against the pandemic, even though the neoliberal reforms of the last thirty years have largely contributed to undermining their capacity to cope with it. Other factors are challenging the organization of health systems to meet the priority needs of populations, such as the prevalence of hospital-centrism, the requirement that users pay for care when they are sick and visit health services, and the construction of new hospitals in Africa.

Mali Hospital (HDM) received its first patients on March 29, 2020, five days after the first case was identified in the country. The HDM is one of the newest hospitals in the country. Built with the support of Chinese cooperation, it was inaugurated in September 2010 ...