Coronavirus crisis highlights need for mental health help in Gulf employment packages
- Date: 08-Sep-2020
- Source: Arabian Business
- Sector:Healthcare
- Country:Gulf
Coronavirus crisis highlights need for mental health help in Gulf employment packages
As the region counts the many costs of coronavirus, one leading organisation has called for mental health to be included in employment packages as staff bear the brunt of the global pandemic.
Among the many people contacting The Lighthouse Arabia for help since the onset of the global pandemic have been working mothers, where the job of online learning has fallen upon them; adolescents starved of the company of friends and spending too much time on social media and computer games; and those in the corporate world, concerned about the health and wellbeing of employees, with telephone calls taken from HR managers and team managers.
Dr. Saliha Afridi, clinical psychologist, who has been in the region for 11 years and co-founded The Lighthouse Arabia nine years ago, wants one of the legacies
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