From COVID-19 Reflections: Crucial Strategies for Ensuring Healthcare Worker and Patient Safety in Developing Countries

From COVID-19 Reflections

Abstract

Globally, as millions of individuals stopovered at home to curtail the spread of COVID 19, healthcare workers (HCWs) remained in field to save mankind from the deadly virus. They attended the hospitals as well as clinics, exposed themselves to risk of COVID 19. Despite multiple steps taken by global health agencies, about 704,301,493 individuals were infected and 7,006,979 died around the globe. A significant proportion of transmissions was reported from health care settings among the health care workforce and patients. About 20% of the health care workforce of Italy was infected and many died in that outbreak, along with significant ratio of disease transmission to thir families. Physical and mental health of HCWs were affected badly because of the nuisance of hard triage verdicts and expiry of patients and colleagues. The frequency of HCWs who have acquired COVID 19 was high among the endemic countries. The key causative factors for the healthcare-associated COVID 19 spreads included lack of personal protective equipment availability, improper use of PPEs, lack of training of HCWs, overcrowding in hospitals and lack of proper acquiescence to and acceptance of the significance of fulfilling infection prevention and control (IPC) strategies. This credence was reinforced by globally renowned agencies i.e., WHO and the CDC. The agencies facilitated and implemented adopting IPC measures