Hospital workers are expected to follow standard precautions while ensuring that patients receive immediate treatment for their illnesses regardless of whether they were tested for COVID-19 or not, according to Guyana’s newly-appointed Chief Medical Officer (CMO) Dr. Narine Singh.
During an interview with Stabroek News yesterday, Guy-ana’s newly-appointed CMO stated that healthcare workers are not routinely tested for COVID-19, hence the need for standard precautions to be followed.
Following “standard precautions” means that healthcare workers will have to assume every person seeking treatment at a hospital is potentially infected or colonized with a pathogen that could be transmitted in the health care setting.
