The Ashanti regional chairman of the Ghana Professional medical Affiliation, Dr. Paa Kwasi Baidoo has challenged a assert by the Foods and Prescription drugs Authority that community masks can protect clinicians against the Covid-19 pandemic.
In accordance to the wellness specialist, after quite a few exploration, there has been no establish that the explained masks can guard health personnel who have interaction straight with Covid-19 clients from contracting the virus.
“There’s been various analysis executed that cloth masks do not secure a person from either microbes or viral infection.
“And indeed even the African Heart for Ailment Handle and Prevention created their personal recommendations and their suggestion is that this fabric masks should not be utilised by clinicians,’ he mentioned on Best Story Friday.
The claim comes right after the Komfo Anokye Instructing Clinic asked the professional medical workforce to use fabric masks following the GMA asked for to be presented with elements, together with the N95 deal with masks to aid their operate as well as making certain their protection.
Dr. Kwasi Baidoo says though they take pleasure in the initiatives of heads of wellbeing establishments in delivering the needed elements to assist their get the job done, he said the proper provisions should really be designed.
The health care provider mentioned the regional nose masks can be made use of by other wellness personnel but can be unsafe to people who specifically have interaction with clients in the lab.
“Now the emphasis is on clinicians not each and every worker in the hospitals. Non-clinical team (who ordinarily are not in immediate call with people) have lower pitfalls of finding contaminated by the virus.
“Such staff can use the cloth nose masks but people today in the outpatient section, in the wards, having treatment of clients, per the evidence readily available, speaks in opposition to the use of fabric masks in the medical placing,” he mentioned.
