Categories of Critical Infrastructure (CI) Workers who are essential to National Security in Healthcare
Categories of Critical Infrastructure (CI) Workers who are essential to National Security in Healthcare
Below are 5 categories of Healthcare / Public Health workers, and why they may be most essential to National Security of any country in Healthcare / Public Health;
1. Inpatient and hospital workers – They provide the critical roles in the hospitals, to take care of any and all patients arriving at the hospital with diverse health problems. Their response is sometimes the dictator of the mortality rates in the US, and thus their importance.
2. Emergency medical services workers – They provide essential care to patients who get untimely health problems like accidents. Sometimes they might even perform emergency surgeries if need be. Due to the sensitivity of the cases they deal with (mostly a balance of life and death), they are as important.
3. Outpatient care workers – They provide essential healthcare to patients not admitted in the major hospitals, including in rural areas and clinics. They play an essential role in reducing the load on major hospitals, thus increasing the probability that any citizen will get timely healthcare.
4. Public health and environmental health workers – They work to communicate important public health information, receive patient calls, perform infection control interventions and ensure healthcare facility safety and emergency preparedness among other tasks, all of which facilitate better healthcare.
5. Workers at healthcare manufacturers (biotechnology), technicians, distributors of medical products and equipment, etc. – They play a critical role in ensuring that healthcare facilities are operational and capable of solving health-related problems by not lacking support infrastructure and products that facilitate healthcare.
Categories of Critical Infrastructure (CI) Workers who are essential to National Security in Healthcare
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