Infection Prevention and Control Practices in Ophthalmology during COVID-19 Pandemic

Abstract

Saloni Garg, Shalini Malhotra, Amiyabala Sahoo, Nirmaljit Kaur, Amarjit Kaur and Nandini Duggal

The COVID-19 pandemic has caused great panic across the globe because of its rapid spread across the globe causing excessive morbidity and mortality. Governments in different parts of the world are imposing various infection control practices in order to contain the spread. Healthcare providers are at high risk of transmission of disease because of indulgence in close patient care. Among these, ophthalmologists further have increased risk because of close proximities to the patient during examination. In this paper we present various infection prevention and control practices during COVID-19 pandemic specially pertaining to ophthalmology

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