Coronavirus: 15 Red Cross officials who bury the dead get psychosocial support

Fifteen volunteers of the Gambia Red Cross coronavirus burial team benefitted from mental health and psychosocial support first aid, the ministry of health has confirmed.

Gambia Red Cross Society officials are responsible for burying people who die from coronavirus in the country. The exercise can be mentally traumatising.

The ministry in its latest Covid-19 situation report released on Friday confirmed fifteen of the red cross volunteers received psychosocial first aid support.

It comes as the ministry said three people died of coronavirus as the nation’s fatalities rose to 19.