KNOWLEDGE AND PRACTICE OF COVID 19 AMONGST HEALTH WORKERS IN MADONNA UNIVERSITY TEACHING HOSPITAL
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Background of the study
The Coronavirus (Covid-19) is a contagious sickness that causes respiratory infections ranging from a simple cold to serious respiratory problems. Brosseau and Sietsema (2020) report that the outbreak originated in December 2019 at a Chinese seafood market in Wuhan where live bats, snakes, raccoon dogs, and other wild animals were sold. On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization declared it a pandemic (World Health Organization, 2020). Global burden and international health risk were both associated with the COVID19 epidemic in 2018. By June 15, 2020, the pandemic had spread to more than 200 nations, infecting more than seven million people, and causing a worldwide health catastrophe that would create fundamental socioeconomic changes, according to estimates. However, the virus is infectious and may be spread via contact with infected persons as well as items and surfaces (World Health Organization, 2020).
When dealing with a pandemic, the optimum outcome is to totally halt the spread of the illness and destroy or eradicate it from the population (Bourne, 2020). There are COVID-19 vaccines now being evaluated for inclusion on the world health organization's emergency use list as of the 3rd of June 2021, with the United Kingdom set to be first to get approval and begin mass immunization on the 8th of December in the year 2020. (World Health Organization, 2021). According to the World Health Organization, Ghana and the Republic of the Côte d'Ivoire became the first African countries to commence COVID-19 immunizations on March 1, 2021, on the recommendation of the WHO. Although there was no commercially available vaccine or specialized antiviral therapy for COVID-19 during the first 11 months of the pandemic, the World Health Organization suggested that the most effective strategy to prevent the spread of COVID-19 was to avoid contact with the virus (World Health Organization, 2020). As a result of the epidemic, almost all nations have launched public health and social interventions. COVID-19 is being transmitted at a sluggish pace as a result of these procedures. Flattening the pandemic curve is a term used to describe the process of slowing the spread of a pandemic by reducing the number of active cases at a particular period. This provides the health-care system (doctors, nurses, and hospitals) with more time to prepare and react without being overwhelmed by the situation (World Health Organization, 2020).
Employees in the healthcare field (HCWs) have been instrumental in the containment of COVID-19 and are thus at elevated risk of exposure to SARS-CoV-2. HCWs, on the other hand, may be a source of SARS-CoV-2 transmission to their patients, family members, and members of the community [Ejeh, 2020]. Among health-care workers, SARSCoV-2 infections may have a disastrous effect, especially if the virus is brought into an environment with a large number of susceptible persons, such as those suffering from comorbidities [Sikkema et al, 2020]. According to Chersich et al. (2020), the pandemic's impact is expected to be especially severe in Africa, where healthcare systems are not sufficiently resilient to cope with the outbreak. Between April and September 2020, according to a global fund assessment of health facilities in 24 African nations, including Uganda, 50 percent of the facilities reported COVID-19 infections across all categories of their employees [Global Fund, 2020].
During the same time period, 67 percent of health-care institutions reported that up to ten percent of their employees had been absent. Staff absences were mostly caused by illness caused by COVID-19 or the need of quarantine owing to exposure to the virus in 19 percent of the institutions. Only 38 percent of the health institutions in the study possessed the four essential personal protective equipment items, which were face masks, disinfection, protective gloves, and hand sanitizer, according to the findings. It is critical that health-care workers (HCWs) follow the COVID-19 preventative measures that have been proposed as part of the efforts to reduce the effect of COVID-19 on healthcare in Africa. But it should be mentioned that the knowledge, attitudes, and practices (KAP) of HCWs have the greatest effect on their adherence to these standards [Fund, 2020]. In order for HCWs to have good attitudes about COVID-19 prevention policies and to engage in appropriate actions that reduce the risk of infection, it is necessary that they have proper knowledge of COVID-19 prevention policies. Therefore the study will investigate the knowledge and practice of Covid 19 amongst health workers in Madonna University teaching hospital
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