World Health Organisation (WHO) recommends using an alcohol-based hand rub for routine hand antisepsis in most clinical situations.
Current Affairs : In the midst of the rising instances of coronavirus in the national capital, clinical specialists at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) here are utilizing hand sanitizers and plastic face shields, which they have made themselves, as improvised Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) while they care for COVID-19 patients.
The specialists of the microbiology office have made hand sanitisers and face shields (veils) in their research facility as they are seeing the lack of individual defensive riggings in the medical clinic.
Dr Purva Mathur, teacher of lab medication and the incharge of disease control office at AIIMS, Delhi has showed this drive in the wake of having a conversation with the emergency clinic organization.
“At AIIMS, we can’t take any risk. PPE has been given by the organization, yet these are insufficient. Along these lines, we need to make other reasonable other options. Aside from temporary plastic face veils which can cover the whole face, we have additionally arranged liquor based hand sanitizers according to the rules of the World Health Organization (WHO). What’s more, it is in every case great to be completely arranged,” said a senior specialist, from the division of contamination control said.
Aditi Mehta 