Description
We’ve already shown how MSF medical teams suit up to enter an Ebola treatment center. These are the main steps of the other side of that process: how personal protective equipment (PPE) is safely removed.
Wearing and taking off PPE correctly when working in the Ebola treatment center is essential to protecting frontline workers, patients, and communities.
The hardest part? For some people, it’s taking off the hood while ensuring the strings don’t snag on something. For others, it’s removing the pant legs of the coveralls without pulling off the boots with them. Our teams always work in pairs: one person watches closely, talking the other through every step, and checking carefully for any breach in the PPE or contamination risks.
Ebola is not airborne. It spreads through direct contact with bodily fluids and contaminated materials, which is why rigorous PPE procedures are so important.