The latest Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) report, tabled in the Kerala Assembly on Tuesday, has revealed significant irregularities in the procurement of PPE kits during the COVID-19 pandemic. The report highlights a financial irregularity of Rs 10.23 crore in the purchase of 15,000 PPE kits in 2020.
This 4-hour free online course offers practical, demonstration-based, and immediately applicable support in the areas of infection prevention and control in the COVID-19 crisis, use of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), the role of nurses in handling COVID-19 patients and self-care.
The current pandemic has exposed vulnerabilities of women more than their male counterparts within their homes, the labour market and as frontline healthcare workers. It has increased their unpaid work as caregivers, magnified pay disparities and widened the existing gender divide with its inequalities.
The frontline workers wear the protective gears while working in a high-risk area, such as the emergency department or those managing patients with severe acute respiratory infection.
As there was shortage of PPE in the country and abroad, the apparel industry in Punjab has shifted to the business and got due approvals from SITRA and DRDO.
All the 36 districts are affected in the state which has reported 3,590 deaths and 97,648 cases till Friday 8 am.
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.
As many as 58 PPE suit manufacturers in Punjab, 54 of which are based in the leading textile hub Ludhiana, have obtained certification from SITRA or DRDO.
INAMS (Institute of Nuclear Medicine and Allied Sciences) is a DRDO organisation tasked with the testing and certification of PPE.
