Mobilising equipment to protect health professionals from Covid-19

With coronavirus cases soaring in the US, doctors, nurses and other front-line medical workers across the country are confronting a dire shortage of medical masks, surgical gowns and eye gear to protect them from the viral infection.

There are other industries that currently utilise personal protective equipment relevant to the medical fraternity and, these include mining, automobile, chemical production and non-medical laboratories, to name a few.Both the public and private sectors needs to work together because public health issues are universal.

The pronouncement of Covid-19 as a national disaster in south Africa and call for social distancing are critical in fighting the pandemic although there is evidence of not taking this measure seriously. Supply chain disruptions compounded by surge in resource demand calls for the government to support entrepreneurs and scale up implementation of innovative solutions.

Louis Vuitton owner LVMH will use its perfume production lines to start producing hand sanitisers and the gel will be delivered free of charge to the health workers in France. Covid-19 is a high priority biological hazard for healthcare workers and we should prioritise measures of protecting them from getting infected and becoming a biological hazard themselves.

In any battle “the frontline suffers most casualties and emergency departments are the frontline of the hospitals” said William Jaquis, president of the American College of Emergency Physicians.

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