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Rules for Wearing and Opening Personal Protective Equipment

Rules for Wearing and Opening Personal Protective Equipment

First you need to clean it with hand sanitizer.

Then take off the gloves later.

Be sure to disinfect your hands after each work. Then you have to take it after the well-cover.

Remember, the gown should be taken after wearing the su-cover.

Personal protective equipment can be of different types of PPE or personal protective clothing. However, the instructions for wearing or opening it are the same.

Masks must be used when in contact with an infected patient. The cap of the gown should be worn in such a way that your hair does not stand out in any way.

If you don't have a face shield on your gown, you should wear gauze later. Finally another set of surgical gloves should be taken later.

Of course, the sleeves of the gown should be well covered with gloves. This is the rule of wearing PPE properly.

Now we will show you how to open or dispose of PPE:

First you have to take off the gloves that you have touched the patient with.

Extreme care must be taken when opening the gloves.

The upper part of the gloves should not be touched in any way while opening the gloves.

And when the gloves are open, remove them to the designated place.

After opening the gloves, open the gauze and put them in the designated place.

Now you have to open the gown by holding it from the inside.

Fold the gloves and gown in such a way that the inside is outside.

After opening the gown, take it off at the designated place.

Then remove the mask. Of course, you have to open the rubber on the side of the ear. There is no way to touch the inside.

Remove the mask and remove it at the designated place.

Now open the well-cover and remove it at the designated place.

Finally take off the gloves.

When opening the gloves, the inside of the glove you first open cannot be touched.

When the gloves of one hand are half open, you have to take off the gloves by touching the inside of the gloves of the other hand with the thumb of that hand.

Now remove the gloves at the designated place.

Remember, the PPE used inside the bio hazard bag must be discarded.

The mouth of the bag should be closed by spraying hypochloride solution.

The bag should then be buried in the ground or burned.

Finally you need to disinfect your hands.

Courtesy: Directorate General of Health Services.