Abstract
Establishment of a hospital-based health care workers surveillance programme to keep them safe during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Highlights
In managing patients with COVID-19 infection, proper use of personal protective equipment is crucial for the protection of health care workers (HCWs) [6]
A comprehensive hospital HCW surveillance programme, taking into consideration all these sources of infection, is essential to protect HCWs, their families, and by extension, their patients. This programme will need to detect those at risk of infection at an early stage to allow for appropriate quarantine measures to limit risks of transmission. In this viewpoint, we describe one such programme implemented at the University of Malaya Medical Centre (UMMC), a 1600 bedded tertiary teaching hospital with more than 5600 HCWs, located in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
From the outset of the pandemic, the Ministry of Health (MoH) Malaysia through its district health offices has been implementing intensive contact tracing for every confirmed COVID-19 case nationwide, and testing of all identified contacts
Summary
In managing patients with COVID-19 infection, proper use of personal protective equipment is crucial for the protection of HCWs [6]. Establishment of a hospital-based health care workers surveillance programme to keep them safe during the COVID-19 pandemic 1 Centre for Epidemiology and Evidence-based Practice, Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
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