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Attention for medical staff in the planning of measures against pandemics

Question écrite de Mme Stefania ZAMBELLI - Commission européenne


Subject: Attention for medical staff in the planning of measures against pandemics

In Italy, as of 10 April 2020, 129 doctors and 28 nurses had died after contracting coronavirus while treating patients. Many similar cases have also been reported in Spain and France. It seems clear that European medical and health workers, i.e. doctors, nurses and healthcare professionals, had to work in conditions that put them at serious personal risk during the early stages of the epidemic, when many of them were deprived of the necessary personal protective equipment and had not received strict instructions on its use. In addition, tests for the virus were not carried out on the scale or with the frequency necessary to reconcile the need to protect staff’s lives and the need to ensure the safety of their patients. The Commission Communication concerning Pandemic Influenza Preparedness and Response Planning (COM(2005)607) likewise does not make any specific reference to measures to protect health workers.

In view of this:

1. Does the Commission not consider it desirable to draw up recommendations to assign priority to the supply of adequate personal protective equipment to medical and health workers, to protect both them and their patients?

2. Does the Commission not consider it desirable to combine the same provisions with a recommendation on plans for screening corresponding to the prevalence of the epidemic?

Réponse - Commission européenne

Diffusée le 1 juillet 2020

Answer given by Ms Kyriakides on behalf of the European Commission

(2 July 2020)

The Commission is working with Member States and international partners on all fronts to tackle the COVID-19 outbreak.

The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) stated early on that all measures should protect the safety of frontline healthcare workers (1).

On 2 February 2020, ECDC published guidance on infection prevention and control of COVID-19, recommending maximum protection for healthcare workers (2), a rational approach to prioritising use of FFP2/3 masks for high-risk care activities and recommended the use of surgical masks for patients in order to protect healthcare workers (3).

The Commission and Member States initiated a joint procurement for personal protective equipment (PPE), including large quantities of FFP2/3 masks for healthcare workers. The Emergency Support Instrument and rescEU reserve (4) is also procuring PPE for healthcare workers in the EU. The Commission has met with healthcare associations and trade unions in the EU to discuss the conditions of healthcare workers.

Testing is a key part of the Joint European Roadmap towards lifting COVID-19 containment measure s (5). ECDC recommended the rollout of testing capacity to the local level on 2 March 2020 (6) and prioritised testing of healthcare workers when testing capacity is limited (7) (8).

The Commission has developed guidelines supporting Member States in using testing tools in the context of their national strategies (9). This includes support to obtain adequate laboratory screening tools for monitoring the prevalence and population based immunity.

⋅1∙ https://www.ecdc.europa.eu/sites/default/files/documents/COVID-19-guidance-health-systems-contingency-planning.pdf

⋅2∙ https://www.ecdc.europa.eu/sites/default/files/documents/nove-coronavirus-infection-prevention-control-patients-healthcare-settings.pdf

⋅3∙ https://www.ecdc.europa.eu/sites/default/files/documents/Infection-prevention-control-for-the-care-of-patients-with-2019-nCoV-healthcare-settings_update-31-

March-2020.pdf

⋅4∙ https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_20_476

⋅5∙ https://ec.europa.eu/info/live-work-travel-eu/health/coronavirus-response/european-roadmap-lifting-coronavirus-containment-measures_en

⋅6∙ https://www.ecdc.europa.eu/sites/default/files/documents/RRA-outbreak-novel-coronavirus-disease-2019-increase-transmission-globally-COVID-19.pdf

⋅7∙ https://www.ecdc.europa.eu/sites/default/files/documents/covid-19-rapid-risk-assessment-coronavirus-disease-2019-eighth-update-8-april-2020.pdf

⋅8∙ https://www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/publications-data/covid-19-guidance-discharge-and-ending-isolation

⋅9∙ Communication on in vitro diagnostic tests and their performance https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:52020XC0415(04)


















| | ) The European Network on Health Technology Assessment is conducting systematic assessments of best available evidence on how testing tools are used to manage the emergency (10).

⋅10∙ https://eunethta.eu/sars-cov-2-antibody-tests/ | | ( | | )

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