More than 10K health workers already infected with Covid-19 – WHO

In a briefing to highlight the impact of the coronavirus on the health sector and its impact on health workers, the World Health Organisation says it was a global imperative to protect health workers.

The use of masks needed to be enforced, including social distancing. Interactive communication such as by SMS and constant messaging to the public needed additional emphasis, to ensure the public is reminded to stay health-conscious. Understanding the dynamics of the virus from the early stages was crucial as health workers needed to understand it in order to protect themselves. Screening remains important to identify affected areas, she maintained.

Dr Jemima A Dennis-Antwi says health workers needed to be individually educated. She noticed that infections were likely to come from outside sanitised places such as communities.“Every patient that comes in is a potential case, she says, and there needed to be a continuous collaboration between staff and governments to ensure the healthy well being of the much-needed workers.

Source: Healthcare Press (healthcarepress.net)

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