Identifying and implementing strategies to reduce the risk of self-contamination of healthcare workers caused by doffing of PPE during COVID-19 pandemic

During the current COVID-19 pandemic, there is estimation that tens of thousands health care workers got infection. The doffing of personal protective equipment (PPE) has been identified an important place and procedure which might influence self-contamination of health care workers. Newer evidences suggest that in addition to existing infection control standards, there is an urgent need for incorporation of various recent information and advancements pertaining to structural and process to reduce self-contamination of health care workers during the doffing of PPE.