Abstract
Healthcare workers are the front liners in war against COVID 19 pandemic. Since this fight against the pandemic started, thousands of heath care workers have been infected with many paying the ultimate price with their lives in a bid to provide health care service to COVID 19 patients. Currently many are either in quarantine or in isolation. Still many are working with fear of virus and in under poor conditions without adequate protections. The potential for high exposure is generally higher in health care workers due to increased hospitalization, longer time exposure, failure to implement effective personal health protection, lack of training, monitoring of infection control protection mechanism. This has led to shortage of workforce in the health sector. Exposure to COVID 19 in the health care setting depends on the health care worker’s understanding of the infectious nature of the virus, the routes by which the virus is acquired, the techniques that are most hazardous and the safe working environment and practice. This work is therefore aimed at providing relevant information on the risk of exposure, the impact of virus on the health care workers and the required bio safety measures needed to keep the workers safe in the organization.
 Broad Academic area of work: Service Quality Excellence in Health care
 Keywords-: PPE (Personal protective equipments), BMW (Bio medical waste), donning and doffing (process of using and discarding PPEs), HCW (Health care workers), Nosocomial infection (Hospital acquired infection), Covid 19.
Highlights
Health care workers are the front liners in the fight against corona virus disease –2019 (COVID—19) and their safety should be an urgent focus in all health care organization
The health care workers are at an increased risk of contracting COVID 19 while intense occupational exposure associated with aerosol generating procedures demanding the necessity of use of personal protective equipment, high transmission efficiency of the causative agent would lead to infection beyond such settings
Discussion & Conclusion: In this prospective observational study carried out in Ruby general Hospital which is a tertiary care teaching hospital in Kolkata, it is evident that safety of health care workers are very important and it is possible to minimize the risk by taking proper safety measures, adhering to infection control measures and putting emphasis on good practice
Summary
Health care workers are the front liners in the fight against corona virus disease –2019 (COVID—19) and their safety should be an urgent focus in all health care organization. In our country the situation is quite alarming and there should be more prophylactic measures to be taken to protect this resource, The data published by Union Ministry of Health is informative and gives a picture about the risk exposure status and outcome of the health care workers. Questioner will be developed to measure the social, psychological, financial and adverse health impact among the health care workers of the organization and lastly prophylactic measures to be highlighted in order to minimise the biosafety hazard among the health care workers With this background it is necessary to protect the health care workers in my organization with a favourable outcome in combating the disease of COVID 19.3. Aim: To assess the risk of exposure and impacts of COVID19 infection in healthcare workers and biosafety measure, in a tertiary care teaching hospital, Kolkata
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