Question

a. Describe Personal Protective Equipment. b. Give three (3) examples of Personal Protective Equipment. C. How much relief is intended to be provided to unemployed South Africans d. Will the package mentioned in your above at c make enough in your opinion? e. What preparatory steps need to be taken to manage the anticipated surge in Covid-19 cases?

Answer 1

a) Personel protective equipments(PPEs) are protective gears that are designed to safeguard the health of workers by minimizing the exposure to biological agents and hazardous environments. Personel Protective Equipments(PPEs) find application in different fields of work and they are an integral part in every field work for the individual protection of the workers.

b) Thre examples are:

i) Shields and visors for eye protecton

ii) Gloves for hand protection

iii) Long sleeved clothes for skin protection

c) The manufacture of PPE kits and other related materials like face masks for fighting the pandemic can be a big oppurtunity for the south africans in these testing times as it can provide many unemployed south africans with employment oppoutunities. They can also look forward for the export these items to other parts of Africa as well as to other parts of the world after meeting their domestic demand. Along with this many tax relaxations have been implemnted by the government through the tax bills. Many economic stimulus packages have also been implemented. Inaddition to this the goverment have implemnted many relief schemes and renumeration schemes for the unemployed south africans.

d) In my opinion if all these measures are implemented properly and effectively it can be very helpful for the citizens of South Africa in these testing times of the pandemic. This is the time when the people and the government should work together.

e) We should be prepared for the worst. There can be a surge in the covid 19 cases before it resides. The most important thing in such worst times is 'proper mangement'. The basic thing to fight against covid 19 is to have good health i.e good immunity so the offcials should take steps to make people aware about the same. Should take care of the availabilty of PPE kits, face masks, immunity booster medicines, ventilators, etc. Government should decide whether to go for home quarantine and treatment or institutional quarantine and treatment or both depending on the availabilty of facilities. It is only through mutual participation of the goverment and the people that this pandemic can be controlled.