The Study of the Outbreak of Coronavirus Infection in a General Hospital in Almaty

Abstract

The study aimed to identify the possible causes of COVID-19 outbreak and its development in a general hospital in Almaty (from April 11 to May 6, 2020), where 682 persons were identified with a COVID-19. 546 were hospital employees (48.9%), including doctors (57.8%), nurses (53.4%), junior medical personnel (54.4%) and other personnel (23.3%), and also among 136 patients. The attack rate among women was 50.0%, and incidence rate was higher amongst young employees < 30 years old (57.0%). The analysis showed that there was a failure of the management of the medical personnel in such critical situation.

Keywords:

• COVID-19
• healthcare workers
• outbreak
• viral transmission
• Kazakhstan

Acknowledgments

The authors express their gratitude for the administrative and technical support provided by the S.D. Asfendiyarov Kazakh National Medical University. The study was supported by the National Program for the Introduction of Personalized and Preventive Medicine in The Republic of Kazakhstan (2021–2023) (OR12165486).

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflict of interest.

Funding

The author(s) reported there is no funding associated with the work featured in this article.