Shuffling family responsibilities and careers can be quite stressful for working mothers, moreso when dependent members of their family are unwell and the working woman needs to take time off work to care for them. Often they run out of paid sick leave. Often this means that when they themselves fall unwell, they may have to take sick leave without pay or are forced to work while ill.
They cannot afford to stay home as they may lose their jobs. If they do manage to get time off to see a doctor they may not get an appointment straight away. The alternative is to go to a costly after hours service. These mothers would certainly benefit from a virtual health service like Doctor2go that they can access from the workplace, a health service that can provide quick and convenient access to a health professional who can address their health issues, as well as arrange for prescriptions and lab tests.
Many workplaces have a clinical nurse but no doctors, and most nurses do not have prescribing rights. With Doctor2go there are no long queues like the ones one would find at doctors’ surgeries or accident and medical centres. There is no waiting in rooms already filled with very sick people, and working mothers can then use their sick leave when they are very unwell and not able to work, or when their loved ones become sick and need their care.
Doctor2go provides safe, convenient, quick access to a health professional for non-emergency medical concerns. For working mothers this is certainly worthwhile, particularly when the alternative is extended wait times for the next available GP appointment, at accident and medical centres or emergency departments in hospitals for minor illnesses and health concerns. This means that there is also no potential loss of income from taking unpaid sick days. Doctor2go helps reduce stress that mothers go through in trying to juggle work and family, and helps keep them and their families safe.
References:
https://aifs.gov.au/publications/family-matters/issue-34/missing-work-care-sick-children
http://www.hrinasia.com/general/is-it-true-that-women-take-more-sick-leave-than-men/
http://www.sladereport.com.au/why-corporates-should-take-leadership-on-social-issues/