Journal of Advances in Medicine
  • Year: 2019
  • Volume: 8
  • Issue: 1and2

COVID-19 in healthcare workers of dedicated covid-19 screening OPD: A case series based study from AIIMS, New Delhi, India

  • Author:
  • Pankhuri Dudani1, Bharathi Arunan2, H. Vikas3, Arvind Kumar4, Piyush Ranjan5, Upendra Baitha6, Prayas Sethi6, Naveet Wig7
  • Total Page Count: 4
  • Page Number: 13 to 16

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.

Abstract

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.

Keywords

COVID screening OPD, Health care workers, Standard Precautions