Name of the Element Used for Preparing the Safety Kits worn by Doctors during Corona Treatment.

Name of the Element Used for Preparing the Safety Kits

Doctors working in the riskiest areas of the UK’s hospitals with Covid-19 patients are finding it harder to get a protective kit, despite ministerial pledges to solve the problem, research reveals. The Royal College of Physicians has condemned the worsening availability of personal protective equipment (PPE) as “truly terrible” and warned that front line staff’s lives are at risk as a result.

Among doctors performing aerosol-generating procedures (AGP), in which patients with the disease release droplets from their mouth, 37% cannot always access a visor to wear. In comparison, 31% have not been able to obtain a full-length surgical gown. Both essential elements of the full PPE NHS staff are advised to wear when participating in an AGP, such as a patient being intubated before being ventilated.

A doctor wearing a torn of raincoat stands at the major coronavirus disease (COVID-19) treatment facility amid concerns about the spread of the disease in Kolkata, India, March 25, 2020.

In India From NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Shortages of protective health gear in India are forcing some doctors to use raincoats and motorbike helmets while fighting the coronavirus, exposing the weak state of the public health system ahead of an anticipated surge in the COVID-19 cases.

Prime Minister of Narendra Modi government said India was trying to get personal protective equipment in bulks domestically and from South Korea and China to meet the shortage.

More than a dozen doctors are battling the outbreaks, which has so far infected 1251 people and killed 32 told Reuters they were concerned that without this proper gear, they could become carriers of the disease.

In Uttar Pradesh, India most populous state, drivers of around 4,700 ambulances that mainly serve governments hospitals went on strike on Tuesday, demanding proper safety gears and health insurance.

We won’t risk our lives unless our demands are met, Hanuman Pandey, president of Ambulance Workers Associations, told Reuters.

According to one projection, more than 100000 people could be infected by mid-May, putting India underfunded health system and scarce doctors under severe strain.

In the eastern city of Kolkata, junior doctors at the majors COVID-19 treatment facility - Beliaghata Infectious Disease Hospitals were given plastic raincoats to examine patients last week, according to two doctors there and photographs reviewed by Reuters.

We won’t work the value of our lives, aforementioned one in all the doctors, UN agency declined to be named as a result of he feared revenge from the authorities.

In northern Haryana state near New Delhi, Dr Sandeep Garg of ESI Hospital said he had been using a motorbikes helmet because he didn’t have any N95 mask, which offers significant protection against virus particles.

I put on a helmet, it has a visor in front, so it covers my face, adding another layer over the surgical masks, Garg said. India health ministry did not immediately respond to Reuters queries.

The plight of doctors in the pandemic has cast a light of an old and overburdened public health systems that have for years been starved of funds and an overhaul. India spends about 1.3% of its GDP on public health, among the lowest on the world.

We are living on a prayer, and it is not that we can save ourselves by relying on the health system, said a senior federal government official in New Delhi, who declined to be named because of the sensitivity of the situations.

In a state runs the hospital in the city of Rohtak in Haryana, several junior doctors have been declining to treats patients unless they have adequate safety equipment.

They also established an informal COVID-19 fund, to which each doctor contributed 1000 rupees ($13.27) to buy masks and other faces coverings, one of the doctors said.

“Everybody is scared,” the doctor said. “Nobody wants to work without protection.”