Primary healthcare needs sharp focus
The G20 summit hosted in New Delhi by Prime Minister Narendra Modi was certainly an opportune moment to deliberate upon…
The G20 summit hosted in New Delhi by Prime Minister Narendra Modi was certainly an opportune moment to deliberate upon…
Of the 33 new patients, 32 are hospital staff and one is a doctor, working in emergency ward. All the patients are asymptomatic.
The doctors' case claims that the government's guidance fails properly to warn healthcare and social care workers of the risks they face with different levels of PPE and their legal rights to refuse to work when inadequate PPE is available.
The statement comes following some new reports expressing concern about the quality of PPE amidst rising numbers of COVID-19 cases.
The healthcare workers who experienced sleeplessness were also more likely to feel depressed, anxious and have stress-based trauma.
In the worst-case infections, patients have to be hooked up to respirators in intensive-care units. But respirators are in desperately short supply worldwide because of the overwhelming number of patients.
