Year: 2020 | Month: June and December | Volume 8 | Issue 1 and 2
COVID-19 in Healthcare Workers of Dedicated COVID-19 Screening OPD: A Case Series Based Study from AIIMS, New Delhi, India
Pankhuri Dudani
Bharathi Arunan
Vikas
H.
Arvind Kumar
Piyush Ranjan
Upendra Baitha
Prayas Sethi
Naveet Wig
DOI:10.30954/2277-9744.1.2019.3
Abstract:
To keep up with the current COVID-19 pandemic, the healthcare infrastructure is continually changing and growing at a rapid pace. Protection of our frontline workers is of utmost priority. Here, we describe the measures taken at our tertiary care center for this purpose. A dedicated COVID-19 screening centre was setup for healthcare workers (HCW), run by frontline HCWs themselves. Over the 6 months that this OPD has run, it has catered to hundreds of HCWs, with a small number of staff themselves contracting COVID-19. The individual cases have been enumerated, and the changes implemented from lessons we learnt have been discussed.
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