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For team leaders or managers in health facilities, it’s important to keep staff protected from chronic stress and poor mental health during this response, which will also help them to have a better capacity to fulfil their roles.  It’s important to keep in mind that this is not going to go away overnight, and focus should be on longer-term occupational capacity rather than repeated short-term crisis responses.   According to the World Health Organization, rotating workers from higher stress to lower stress functions is recommended, as well as ensuring that good quality communication and accurate information is provided and updated to all staff.  Including awareness of where and how they can access mental health and psychosocial support services and facilitate access to such services.  Managers and team leaders are facing similar stresses as their staff and may experience additional pressures related to the responsibilities of maintaining that their staff is being tended to, so please, do not overlook yourselves as well!!  It’s not only important to be a role-model to your coworkers and staff by providing them with what they need, but to also make sure and show them that you are being responsible with your own mental health as well.

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