The connection of the disease with a new coronavirus infection with the profession, medical and social examination and rehabilitation injured at work

Abstract

The new coronavirus infection has put a number of urgent tasks for the professional community on the effectiveness and timeliness of which not only the life and health of patients depends, but the health and quality of life of the medical workers themselves, especially in the case of infection with COVID-19 in the line of duty. The high incidence of acute occupational diseases caused by COVID-19 among medical workers requires appropriate correction of the mechanisms and procedures for linking the disease with the profession, medical and social expertise, rehabilitation and insurance coverage. In the article, the authors analyzed both the existing ones and those that came into force during the development of the pandemic, regulatory documents and methodological recommendations regulating the connection between the disease of a new coronavirus infection and the profession, methodological approaches to medical and social examination and rehabilitation in case of medical workers becoming ill with a new coronavirus infection and its consequences. Reasonable algorithms for the actions of medical workers are presented, starting from the moment of detecting an occupational disease until the moment of examination at the bureau of medical and social expertise in the event of a persistent loss of professional working capacity.