At least 251 doctors got infected of the coronavirus disease in Bangladesh.
CORONAVIRUS DISEASE – Over 200 doctors in Bangladesh contracted Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) due to lack of PPEs.
As the number of confirmed cases in Bangladesh continue to surge, at least 251 of their doctors also contracted the dangerous and highly contagious Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19). This is according to Bangladesh Doctors Foundation (BDF) on Thursday citing that lack of personal protective equipment (PPE) while being exposed to positive patients caused this affecting hundreds of their front-line workers.
Many countries suffer from lack of PPE to fight coronavirus. BRAC University, in their recent study, it accordingly showed that 25 percent of doctors and nurses and 60 percent of medical support staff are yet to receive their PPE in their country.
PPE and other gears are their protection in order not to have the fatal and without these, they are forced to face the threats and dangers just so patients will recover. If putting their lives at risk treating people without proper protection is not heroic enough, then we don’t know what is.
According to Al Jazeera, Meerjady Sabrina Flora, director of the Bangladesh government’s Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research, they suffer shortage of quality PPEs. She said, “It’s not our unique problem: healthcare workers across the world are facing [an] acute crisis of PPE. We are trying to outsource quality PPE from different places. Several private organisations have come forward to donate PPE.”
Meanwhile, ready-made garment (RMG) factories also produced this but they are not able to manufacture medical-grade equipment and only chemical-resistant PPEs. And wearing this does not guarantee full protection as they are still exposed to possible infection as per report.
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