1Resident, Department of Dermatology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India
2Resident, Department of Medicine, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India
3Assistant Professor, Department of Hospital Administration, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India
4Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India
5Additional Professor, Department of Medicine, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India
6Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India
7Professor and Head, Department of Medicine, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India
*Corresponding author Arvind Kumar, Associate professor, Department of Medicine, 3094A, third floor, Teaching Block, AIIMS, New Delhi-110029, Email: linktoarvind@gmail.com
Online published on 20 April, 2021.
To keep up with the current COVID-19 pandemic, the healthcare infrastructure is continually changing and growing at a rapid pace. Protection of our frontline workers is of utmost priority. Here, we describe the measures taken at our tertiary care center for this purpose. A dedicated COVID-19 screening centre was setup for healthcare workers (HCW), run by frontline HCWs themselves. Over the 6 months that this OPD has run, it has catered to hundreds of HCWs, with a small number of staff themselves contracting COVID-19. The individual cases have been enumerated, and the changes implemented from lessons we learnt have been discussed.
COVID screening OPD, Health care workers, Standard Precautions
