El covid 19 y la situación laboral de los profesionales de la salud en hospitales públicos de Guayaquil – Ecuador, período 2019 al 2021.

Abstract

The presence of COVID 19 as a disease directly affected operational normality at the social level, due to the need to maintain distance and direct contact with those infected. As causes of the study, it was inferred that health professionals faced an increase in the number of patients, absences of biosafety protocols in hospitals and incompatibility in the forms of hiring, causing workload in each patient, risks of contagion at work and job instability. For the beginning of the study, the following was raised: How has the presence of COVID-19 affected the employment situation of health professionals in public hospitals in Guayaquil - Ecuador during the years 2019 to 2021? Proposing to analyze the incidence of Covid 19 on the employment situation of health professionals in public hospitals in Guayaquil - Ecuador, period 2019 to 2021. For the methodological analysis it was necessary to use a research with a non-experimental design due to the importance of not interfering with the quality of the data, in addition to a mixed, cross-sectional and descriptive approach, with the opinions of 66 health professionals being the conclusive data for the study. The study ends by arguing that COVID 19 influenced hospitals to implement security measures against infections, isolation between patients and increases in the work day, which affected employees in the need for conflict management programs, limit their performance at work and physical and mental exhaustion since the start of the declaration of the pandemic.