Work conditions and personal protective equipment against Covid in health personnel, Lima-Peru. Viviana Colona-Risco 4 , Bachelor in Nursing. Omar Baldomero Raraz-Vidal 1. Descriptive, cross-sectional and analytical study.
An analysis was carried out with the generalized linear model of the Poisson family, log link function, robust models with fit.
Health personnel under the age of 56 rarely received PPE. When they work without an employment relationship, they sometimes receive a mask. Cases of COVID continue to increase, especially in the American continent, which has increased the need for frontline health professionals in both public and private institutions, even working long hours.
As a result, the health professional may contract COVID disease and need to be hospitalized, even use mechanical ventilation in the ICU or lose his life, figures that increased as the problem of access to PPE worsened. In hospitals, biosafety measures must be strict. These guidelines suggest a mandatory minimum ratio of personal protective equipment according to the level of risk, previously assessed by the occupational health and safety area, which suggests the type of PPE according to the occupational risk.
And they have weak health systems. The organisms that watch over occupational health recommend that access to PPE should be ensured, improving working conditions integrated with the prevention measures established in the organizational plans against COVID The study design was: descriptive, cross-sectional and analytical.
