Incidence of COVID-19 accidents among healthcare workers OO.RR. Vittoria Comiso

Abstract

The infections at work from Covid-19 reported to Inail as of August 31 are 52,209. Information relating to harmful events was obtained from the analysis of the INAIL files and from the certificates of the competent doctor. In the period from April 2020 to January 2021, 72 accidents involving employees of the P.O. Guzzardi di Vittoria, infected with coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2). The beginning of the epidemiological wave among employees was found in a crescendo that goes from the middle of which goes from mid-October 2020 to the end of November 2020, divided as follows: 43% with the beginning of an injury in the second half of October 2020, 33.3% in the first ten days of November, and significant reduction of 15.27% in the first ten days of December to then witness a further reduction in the number of cases in January 2021, equal to 5.5%. The days of illness attributable to the COVID infection gave an average of no. 32 days with a disastrous outcome only by chance. The observational analysis is aimed at studying the incidence of COVID-19 accidents among employees who have served in the COVID assistance modules, specifically U.O. Medicine-COVID, U.O. First Aid, Pre-triage Area, U.O. Radiology, equal to 29 injuries (40.3%). The percentage indicators that emerged from the epidemiological survey, essential for arriving at assessments on containment measures relating to the world of hospital work, made it possible to highlight not a few points for reflection and appropriate, if not due, changes to the work organization.