Amani Hashim Yousif
Kau Midical Servec Center, Saudi Arabia
Title: Efficiency of Adherence to Safety practices and protocols in protection during handling ofcovid_19 samples in the laboratories 2020 Higher Diploma of Quality and Medical Laboratory Management
Biography
Biography: Amani Hashim Yousif
Abstract
Background: Coronaviruses are large group of viruses that can cause disease in animals and humans. This virus emerged in the Chinese city of Wuhan in 2019. Corona virus can cause mild respiratory infection, like common cold, but can lead to serious illnesses, like pneumonia. Due to the severity of this disease most of people applied the safety precautions, particularly health care workers.
Aim: According to CDC and OSHA standard the study aimed to detect if the safety practices applied in side laboratories according to OSHA and CDC standard, can provide a good protection for laboratory workers from covid_1
Material and Method: To find out, the researcher prepared a close- ended questionnaire depending on Likert scale and containing various questions about safety practices should be applied in side laboratories to avoid incidence of infection with corona. After that the questionnaire was distributed to twenty laboratory technologists from different laboratories, eleven of them from Makkah region (Kingdom of Saudi Arabia) and nine from AL- Doha (Qatar).
Result: The most important result was 85% of laboratory workers protected themselves form infection with covid_19 after applying most of appropriate safety practice when manipulating of corona virus samples and there was 14.3% infected with corona virus, suggesting that the adherence to safety practice in side laboratories is very importance to give good protection against covid_19 infection.
Conclusion: The study showed obviously, there is a strong relationship between the adherence of laboratory employee to safety precautions and the incidence of infection.
Key word s: Covid-19, sars_cov_2, PPE, N95 respirator, BSC, CDC, OSHA, safety practices.