Abstract
After 2 years of improving, implementing and managing through the Pandemic of COVID-19, we can see that the cases had been going down in Malaysia. Healthcare worker (HCW) plays an important role in being the pioneer of treatments and SOP before it being implemented to the rakyat in making sure it is safe and possible. The purpose of this study is to observe the trend that had been exhibited in HCW cases, to identify which health facility had contributed most cases and to recognized the cause of infection of COVID-19 among Healthcare worker from the month of January until June 2022. The data was obtained from state record of Healthcare worker infected with COVID-19 manage by Occupational Health and Environmental Unit. There are total of 3406 (n) cases recorded within the period with Hospital Putrajaya contributed the most cases of 34.23% (1166) infections, followed by Titiwangsa District Health Office with 11.33% (386) and Hospital Rehabilitasi Cheras with 10.45% (356) cases. The infection of COVID-19 peaked on the month of March with 50.46% (1719) and subsequently lowered down to only 6.66% (227) in April and 2.32% occurring in May. However, the cases rise on the month of June with 4.14% (141) parallel with the Ministry of Health statement in Mid-June. There are 84.44% (2876) cases with Non-Work Related causes ranging from social, traveling history, family and symptomatic screening. Another 15.56% (530) cases were cause by Work- Related such as HCW to HCW interaction, HCW to Patient/Caregiver, Healthcare worker handling COVID-19 sample. Hospital Putrajaya exhibit the most cases due to the higher numbers of staff in the Hospital compared to other health facilities. The month of February and March shows much higher cases may be due to government implementation of using RTK-AG/ Saliva/ Nasal Kits in diagnosing positive cases to be able to detect cases based on symptoms and reducing the workload in the state or district health department. Non-Work related demonstrate as the most higher cause for the infection to spead might be due to social interaction in between the family members, friends and relative. Other causes of non-work related to be higher is due to loosened regulation in due to Malaysia approaching Endemic state. While work related shows much lower percentage due to health facilities still following the regulation of wearing mask and social distancing while working. The trends of cases, health facilities and causes had a big impact for Occupational Health and Environmental Unit in managing the cases in the state level.
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@proceedings{APCPH2022-P-36,
title = {Descriptive Study of Healthcare Worker under Department of Health Kuala Lumpur and Putrajaya Infected with COVID-19 from January 2022 until June 2022},
author = {Nabilah A and Mohamad Johan Jefri M.J},
url = {https://apcph.cphm.my/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/APCPH2022-P-36.pdf
https://apcph.cphm.my/wp-content/uploads/wpforms/1176-1e04940bb5d885bf8711ed19095a89ed/POSTER-APCPH2022-P-36-updated-da2626d00d303b273c728f2813b35b06.pdf},
year = {2022},
date = {2022-08-02},
urldate = {2022-08-02},
issue = {7},
abstract = {After 2 years of improving, implementing and managing through the Pandemic of COVID-19, we can see that the cases had been going down in Malaysia. Healthcare worker (HCW) plays an important role in being the pioneer of treatments and SOP before it being implemented to the rakyat in making sure it is safe and possible. The purpose of this study is to observe the trend that had been exhibited in HCW cases, to identify which health facility had contributed most cases and to recognized the cause of infection of COVID-19 among Healthcare worker from the month of January until June 2022. The data was obtained from state record of Healthcare worker infected with COVID-19 manage by Occupational Health and Environmental Unit. There are total of 3406 (n) cases recorded within the period with Hospital Putrajaya contributed the most cases of 34.23% (1166) infections, followed by Titiwangsa District Health Office with 11.33% (386) and Hospital Rehabilitasi Cheras with 10.45% (356) cases. The infection of COVID-19 peaked on the month of March with 50.46% (1719) and subsequently lowered down to only 6.66% (227) in April and 2.32% occurring in May. However, the cases rise on the month of June with 4.14% (141) parallel with the Ministry of Health statement in Mid-June. There are 84.44% (2876) cases with Non-Work Related causes ranging from social, traveling history, family and symptomatic screening. Another 15.56% (530) cases were cause by Work- Related such as HCW to HCW interaction, HCW to Patient/Caregiver, Healthcare worker handling COVID-19 sample. Hospital Putrajaya exhibit the most cases due to the higher numbers of staff in the Hospital compared to other health facilities. The month of February and March shows much higher cases may be due to government implementation of using RTK-AG/ Saliva/ Nasal Kits in diagnosing positive cases to be able to detect cases based on symptoms and reducing the workload in the state or district health department. Non-Work related demonstrate as the most higher cause for the infection to spead might be due to social interaction in between the family members, friends and relative. Other causes of non-work related to be higher is due to loosened regulation in due to Malaysia approaching Endemic state. While work related shows much lower percentage due to health facilities still following the regulation of wearing mask and social distancing while working. The trends of cases, health facilities and causes had a big impact for Occupational Health and Environmental Unit in managing the cases in the state level.},
howpublished = {published online at https://apcph.cphm.my},
note = {Type: POSTER PRESENTATION; Organisation: Occupational Health and Environmental Unit, Public Health Division, Department of Health Federal Territory of Kuala Lumpur and Putrajaya, Jalan Cenderasari, 50590 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia},
keywords = {Covid-19, healthcare worker, Infection, Infection trends, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Non Work Related, Putrajaya, State Health Department, Work Related},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {proceedings}
}