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Background:Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) forms a very important part of the protective armour for the frontline warriors in this battle against the COVID-19 pandemic. Present study aimed to assess the work efficiency, physical and neurological dysfunction associated with the number of Personal Protective Equipment-donned working hours by Doctors in a Covid care center. Material & Method: This cross-sectional study was conducted among the doctors working in COVID ward of AVMCH during the June 2021 to November 2021. All the doctors worked in COVID-19 ward and willing to be part of study were included. Doctors with presence of co-morbidities like diabetes, hypertension, asthma, obesity, infected with COVID-19 and not willing were excluded. Ethical clearance for the study was obtained from the institution prior to initiation of study and consent was taken from all the participants. An online validated questionnaire was shared to participants through Google form and were requested to fill the form. The collected response were analysed using STATA v7 for statistical analysis. Result: Total of 220 participants included in the study, with mean age of 26.75+or-2.69 yrs. among them 87 were female participant and 133 were male participants. On assessment of questionnaire agreed for respective questions as difficulty in decision making (74.6%), difficulty in communication (93.1%), missing simple prescriptions (83.6%), urge to doff (66.4%), headache (78.1%), difficulty in writing (69.1%), and difficulty in seeing (70%). Conclusion: In present study we documented higher incidence of the physical dysfunction and neurological dysfunction among the doctors worked in COVID-19 care associated with use of PPE.
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Background: Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) a highly contagious disease which is caused by the severe sensitive respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2). Recovery of some patients is prolonged due to unknown factors. Persistent viremia may be attributed to decreased immunity, recurrent infection, inflammation, immune responses, and a decline in psychological health. This study assessed the significance of symptoms and morbidities in COVID -19 patients after their acute COVID illness. Material and method: This retrospective-prospective hybrid study was conducted among patients from rural and urban areas to AVMC&H. Patients aged more than 18 years with previously confirmed COVID -19 infection after 12 weeks of COVID-19 illness. Interviews were conducted by house-to-house survey after obtaining informed consent. Patients with acute COVID-19 disease and not ready to take part in the study were not considered. All the statistical analysis was performed using SPSS v28. Result: A total of 250 patients fulfilling inclusion criteria were included by means age of 43.6+or-14.77 years;among them, 55.2% (n=138) were males. Patients documented chest pain (13.2%), palpitation (18%), giddiness (14%), breathlessness (11.2%), cough (12%), fatigue (40.4%), headache (8.6%), loss of taste (1.6%), sleep disturbance (10.8%). Rehospitalization rates were very low (1%) among previously hospitalized patients (40% n=100), and the average duration of hospitalization was 2.8 days. Conclusion: The present study documents the presence of post-COVID symptoms among the patients after their sharp COVID-19 disease and the number of symptoms strongly associated with comorbidities.