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The Ministry of Health and Prevention requires all health professionals and medical students in the country to refrain from wearing their lab coats outside hospitals and universities to avoid the spread of pathogenic microbes inside and outside their facilities, and that is in line with the directives of the World Health Organization and the international organizations related with the prevention of infectious diseases.
A circular issued on Satuday urged the directors of the medical districts, directors of governmental and private medical establishments as well as the deans of medical colleges to take appropriate measures to ensure strict compliance with this requirement to avoid spread of infectious diseases in the community.
Dr. Amin Hussein Al Amiri, Assistant Undersecretary of the Ministry's Public Health Policy and Licensing, revealed that the government's health inspection teams have recorded repeated violations from both health practitioners and medical students, with some seen wearing their white coats while inside the mosques and markets and attending meetings, conferences, and seminars.
Referring to a research by the International Journal of Bacteriology, he said: "Clinical white coats have very long history of being a symbol of hope and healing for medical professionals; however there has been a concern that white coats may play a big role in transmitting infections within and outside health facility settings. Wearing white coats by medical professional is an accepted practice, but to wear it outside the medical facility is by all means unacceptable".
In the WHO tuberculosis report issued in 2013 it was stated that airborne infections may be transmitted through gowns and other personal protective equipment if caution is not achieved, and this will present a great risk to the community.
In a study among 100 medical doctors in a hospital in United States of America in 2016, it was revealed that 44% of the coats revealed organisms in the sleeves and pockets. And furthermore, analysis of the organisms revealed that staphylococcus aureus ranked the first to contaminate the coats followed by pseudomonas aeruginosa.
Also in the 2015 report of World Health Population: Microbiological analysis of swabs taken from the cuffs and pocket of physicians' white coats in an acute care hospital showed that 39.1% of the coats had bacterial contamination.
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