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MEDISAN

versión On-line ISSN 1029-3019

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ROBERT SANCHEZ, Eduardo; CARDONA SANCHEZ, Omara Mercedes  y  ESTRADA LADOY, Lisbet. Health workers contaminated with SARS-CoV-2 during their assistance functions in a hospital institution. MEDISAN [online]. 2022, vol.26, n.3  Epub 20-Jun-2022. ISSN 1029-3019.

Introduction:

The preservation of health professionals is always high-priority, especially in epidemic situations.

Objective:

To characterize health workers that got sick with COVID-19 during the exercise of their profession.

Methods:

An observational, descriptive and cross-sectional serial cases study with retrospective collection of the information was carried out in 12 workers of Dr. Antonio María Béguez Cesar Southern Teaching Children Hospital in Santiago de Cuba who caught the SARS-CoV-2 while they carried out their assistance functions in the first semester of the year 2021.

Results:

In the series there was a prevalence of the female sex (91.7 %) and the 30 to 39 age group (33.3 %); most of the workers worked in the miscellany (41.7 %) and microbiology services (16.7 %) and they were mainly doctors. Those that didn't have personal pathological history were also notable (66.7 %) and those that didn't show any complication associated with the infectious process. As for the labor risk factors, all had been exposed to the virus and some had had contact with presumed infected or with patients that suffered from the disease. Among the symptoms of the COVID-19 that they suffered, fever, cough, migraine and diffuse discomfort were more frequent.

Conclusions:

The few number of workers that caught the coronavirus during their assistance performance in that phase was to a large extent due to the elimination of breaches in the execution of biosecurity norms established for the care to the presumed infected by the SARS-CoV-2 and to the sick persons of the COVID-19, as well as to the secure practices of the health staff.

Palabras clave : infections due to coronavirus; virus of the SRAS; health personal; transmission of infectious disease from patient to professional; secondary health care.

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