Women in the frontlines and who are the on the battling the Covid-19 for all says that the Medical PPE that should be protecting them is quite ineffective. There are a survey for 892 women from more than and different countries reveals that the Medical PPE is unfit for them, specially in terms of sizes and design.
It shows that the PPE's are primarily designed for Men so research has shown that it often failed to protect Women wearing it. All the other equipment other than PPE, including respirators, gloves and gowns, are all too big for them to wear it, but they don't have a choice because there are no available other than that.
Those Ill-fitting medical equipment are not just failing to protect Women, but are also making them suffer more. So the risks of contamination are really high for them.
Rosemary Morgan, an associate scientist is Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health stated that, this should be a wakeup call government to build a more sufficient healthcare systems that are inclusive and protective than to wait to get to the crisis point.
Source & Photo Courtesy: SciDev.net
By: Mary Jayezel Javier
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