Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) is the first and most crucial line of defence for the frontline healthcare professionals battling the highly contagious coronavirus. PPE is indeed the armour that protects these healthcare warriors as they create an uncontaminated interior considerably limiting the risk of infection. But the protection actually comes at a cost. It’s no easy task to work for at least 6-8 hours by wearing the PPE suits. Wearing PPE for long periods of time can have physiological burdens on the healthcare workers. It includes rashes, headaches, breathing difficulty, hypoxia, and much more.
“How can a soldier win a war without guns, the same is the situation here, The government has made corona centres, but doctors are forced to work without personal protective equipment (PPE), please look into this matter,” tweeted a doctor yesterday. The threat of coronavirus pandemic has finally put all Indians, except the health workers […]