Qatar health authority issues protocol to protect health personnel

Qatar's Primary Health Care Corporation (PHCC) has affirmed that it is taking the most extreme consideration to shield patients and clinical faculty from the dangers of transmission of the coronavirus (COVID-19), as indicated by Qatar News Agency (QNA). 

The Head of Al Thumama Health Center at PHCC, Dr. Hanadi Al Hail, said in press explanations that PHCC has built up a far reaching plan for wellbeing focus patients that incorporates the nearness of clinical staff at the entryways to take the neurotic history of every patient and measure temperature and separate presumed cases with guiding them to crisis division which keeps them from blending in with different patients, just as sorting out pausing and banquet rooms and checking and tips for social distancing to guarantee everybody's security. 

She clarified that among the measures, clinical interviews were enacted remotely via telephone to speak with patients in many administrations, for example, family and claim to fame medication facilities, dentistry, nourishment, mental and wellbeing instruction, while the wellbeing habitats keep on getting crisis cases, what's more, meds are apportioned to patients through home conveyance benefits in collaboration with Qatar Post, particularly for the older who are increasingly vulnerable to the malady, so as to lessen the recurrence of guests to wellbeing places for routine cases so as to safeguard their security and to diminish swarming and contamination dangers. 

With respect to the precautionary measures taken to secure the clinical staff, Dr. Hanadi Al Hail brought up that the clinical groups in wellbeing focuses are continually quick to wear clinical facial veils, hand washing and the utilization of sanitizers, while guaranteeing distancing, particularly since clinical staff are viewed as models for patients. 

On isolate, Dr. Hanadi clarified that the isolate is typically applied when an irresistible sickness spreads, whereby the individuals who are presented to contamination are required to stay at home or in a spot assigned for isolate so as to forestall the spread of the malady to other people and as an endeavor to control illness conditions. 

She included that during isolate, individuals are followed up as far as the presence of any neurotic side effects, for example, high internal heat level and others, while the isolate period is resolved dependent on the brooding time of the infection. 

With respect to tests for COVID-19, Dr. Hanadi Al Hail said that PHCC first evaluates cases by a specialist, and if an individual is suspected to be tainted, a patient's swab will be made by the convention, where the outcomes show up inside 12 to 24 hours from the hour of taking the examples, at that point the particular group will educate the patient regarding the outcome and give the suitable guidelines in the two cases, regardless of whether the outcome is negative or positive.