ABSTRACT

The very recent outbreak of the coronavirus has propelled to a pandemic of such magnitude that we as humans have never experienced before. The first known case was reported by the 31st of December 2019 and from then onwards the virus has wreaked havoc in almost every nook and corner of the world, with the developing and the third world countries having to put up with the brunt of the pandemic. In this review the authors have tried to analyse and understand the effectiveness of the Personal Protective Equipments (PPE) being widely used by healthcare professionals all over the world with special emphasis on those being used by healthcare professionals in India. The review was done by collecting the data from various prominent medical journals and related websites like Pubmed, Research Gate, Google Scholar etc. QualityAssessment was done for the collected articles and was reviewed. It was found from the review that the existing Personal Protective Equipments being used by the vast majority of healthcare professionals are not completely effective in the battle against the Covid-19 pandemic. With the majority of the population in India experiencing humid climate, it is extremely overbearing for the frontline medical professionals to provide necessary care to the needy whilst wearing PPE’s. This difficulty often leads to reducing the active usage time of the PPE kits. Hence more production of the same is required, sadly for which sufficient funds are not available in both the public and private sectors. Hence considering the above factors which require immediate attention, the government must take sufficient steps to ramp up the production of PPE kits to meet the rising demands of the same in the healthcare sector as the number of positive cases are rising almost exponentially. Keywords: PPE; CoVID-19; Health care workers; Infection Control
Publication date: 01/08/2021

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https://doi.org/10.31032/IJBPAS/2021/10.8.1004