HEALTH CARE PROVIDERS or Doctors, Nurses, Paramedical Staffs, Ambulance Drivers, even Grade IV cleansing and Assisting staffs in Hospitals, Nursing Homes, primary, secondary or tertiary health Care centers should be well protected by immunization for common diseases for which they treat patients. All healthcare providers should be immune to measles, mumps, rubella, and varicella. All healthcare providers with potential exposure to blood or body fluids should be immune to hepatitis B. All healthcare providers should be offered annual immunization with influenza vaccine.
All health care workers should receive a one-time dose of Tdap as soon as possible unless they are certain that they have received Tdap. All healthcare providers should immunized for tetanus, diphtheria, pertussis and pneumococcal vaccine. .At risk health care providers and laboratory personnel should be offered the…
