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Health care workers’ deaths from COVID-19 in India: What can we learn?
Senior Consultant Gastroenterologist & Deputy Medical Director, Sunrise Group of Hospitals, Kochi, Kerala, India
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Professor of Psychiatry and Psychology, Rajagiri School of Behavioural Science and Research, Rajagiri College of Social Sciences (Autonomous), Rajagiri P. O., Kalamassery, Kochi, Kerala, India
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DIP: 18.01.126/20200802
DOI: 10.25215/0802.126
ABSTRACT
COVID–19 is the worst global pandemic of recent times. Health care workers (HCWs) are at increased risk of contracting this infection. However, many of these cases could have been prevented if adequate safety precautions had been taken by the individual himself/herself and the hospital. In this paper, we briefly look at what is known about COVID-19 infections and deaths among HCWs in India and will then provide guidance on what HCWs themselves and hospitals can do to reduce the risk of infections and deaths among HCWs.
This is an Open Access Research distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any Medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
© 2020, R Jayadevan & S George
Received: June 05, 2020; Revision Received: June 24, 2020; Accepted: June 25, 2020
Dr. Rajeev Jayadevan @ sanjugeorge531@gmail.com
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ISSN 2348-5396
ISSN 2349-3429
18.01.126/20200802
10.25215/0802.126
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Published in Volume 08, Issue 2, April- June, 2020