This Webinar is a Physicians Collaborative between APPNA MERIT and Pakistani institutions to discuss updates and lessons learned daily for treatment of acute care or inpatient management of hospitalized patients with Coronavirus infections.

Topic: Safeguarding health care workers and health facilities

Moderator :
Zahid Rafiq MD, CCFP, FCFP
Family Physician, Calgary, Canada.
Vice Chair MOSAIC Primary Care Network.

Speaker :
Unab I. Khan MD, MSc. FAAFP, CAQ (Adol. Med)
Associate Professor and Chair, Dept. of Family Medicine
Aga Khan University, Karachi

Panelists:
Abdul Waheed, MD, FAAFP
Program Director
Family Medicine Residency
WellSpan Good Samaritan Hospital
Clinical Associate Professor
Family & Community Medicine
Penn State University College of Medicine
Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine

Dr.Yousuf Haroon Ahmad
MBBS, DHSM, MHPE,FRACGP, FACRRM
Family Physician (Australia)
Chairman Board of Directors RWAV
Councillor RACGP-Vic
Managing Directors Inglis Medical Centre
Chair AAPP, MHPA

APPNA Leadership:
1. Dr. Naheed Usmani, MD (President, APPNA)
2. Dr. Shahid Rafiq, MD (Chair, APPNA MERIT)
3. Danish Bhatti, MD FAAN (Co-Chair APPNA MERIT)

Register yourself using below link:
https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_TIZAHv1NRZKHUM7Jfv1yOg
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar.

All information related to merit covid-19 webinars is now available on our website:
https://appnamerit.com/covid-webinar/

Some questions and comments by participants in this webinar:
1. I want to ask about why some young people are showing symptoms like cough, fatigue, lethargic ,hairfall(more than 2months and still they have.. even after they tested negative ...how we can manage them? what could be cause.. is it life threatening.. or never go away
2. Is there a change in the rules of wearing mask with regard to the duration of gathering? Ex: in a close Air-conditioned room the mask is needed to wear if meeting is longer than 1/2 an hour, regardless of number of people in the room?
3. how you deal with turnover in your settings?
4. is there a way to reuse N 95 masks as they are short of supply
5. what's the efficiency of respirators (diff from N95) health care or doctors workers are wearing in Covid units of hospitals? Are these kind of respirators worn by the people in other health care units?
6. we health worker working In hospital, by using normal surgical mask.. is it effective only for 6 hours..? I mean as our duty lasts for 8 -9 hours
7. what are policies for employees if they do not not wear mask or following SOPs?
8. how do you deal with the myths that patient attendets says
one hour before the patient was fine then the doctors injected syringe and covid patient died
i short doctors are killing patients , this myth was common in pakistan
9. any comment on the management of patient and its care in hospitals by the doctors in covid crisis