Friday 4 June is #CrazySocks4Docs Day – a day to raise awareness of the mental health needs of our frontline healthcare workers, especially under Covid-19, writes Lizette Rabe. In fact, 122 000 healthcare workers suffered from Long Covid, ahead of teachers (114 000) and social workers (31 000). Conversations regarding mental health challenges experienced by students and health care workers are absolutely essential. Indeed, just wearing a pair of mismatched socks on #CS4D Day, is one such simple gesture of a "small goodness". Professor Tiaan de Jager, dean of the University of Pretoria’s Health Sciences Faculty, stresses that the pandemic highlights the importance of mental health.

Source: News 24 June 02, 2021 07:07 UTC