It is worrying to note that a vast majority of the nurses working at the government and non-government hospitals across the country are taking part in the fight against the Covid-19 pandemic without adequate protective gear.
Reportedly around 85.66pc nurses do not have personal protective equipment while 71.93pc nurses did not receive any PPE set supplied by the government free of cost. Among those who got PPE from the government, around 86.99 are dissatisfied with the quality.
It needs no emphasizing that safety measures taken for medical professionals working on the frontline to tackle the Covid-19 pandemic is still not up to mark and which us why the number of infected medical workers increasing at an alarming rate in Bangladesh. Reportedly, a number of 529 doctors and nurses working at different government and private hospitals across the country have been infected so far by the deadly coronavirus in their fight against the Covid-19 pandemic.
Safety measures taken for medical professionals
working on the frontline is still not up to mark
and which us why the number of infected medical
workers increasing at an alarming rate
We are told that hundreds of crores of taka is being spent to brought PPE but not a single consignment meets the criteria of the World Health Organization. No doubt without proper and adequate PPE, our workforce will be dicimated. Who will then be left to look after the patients.
When medical staff don’t have the proper protective gear, they put not only themselves at risk but other patients as well. The longer this epidemic goes on for, if heath workers feel that there is a widespread lack of PPE, then many of them may feel they have no choice but to give up the profession they love, because they feel so abandoned by not being given the PPE that the World Health Organization recommends.
That’s the travesty of this situation, that the government needs to protect frontline health workers and in return they will give their best. We must integrate adequate security measures for medical workers who are directly confronting the virus.
