Personal protective equipment (PPE) is used every day by healthcare personnel (HCP) to protect themselves, patients and others when providing care.
PPE helps protect HCP from potentially infectious patients and materials, toxic medications, and other potentially dangerous substances used in healthcare delivery.
PPE shortages are currently posing a tremendous challenge to the us healthcare system because of the COVID-19 pandemic Healthcare facilities are having difficulty accessing the needed PPE and are having to identify alternate ways to provide patient cars.
Countries across globe have falled to layout Disaster Recovery Planining(DRP) because of the shortages of PPE among the healthcare.
Heathcore workers on the front lines nave, in some cases, taken to creating PIPE using office supplies, or reusing exsting supplies more times than the CDC recommends in order to stratich supply.