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PE2071: Take action to protect people from airborne infections in health and social care settings

Petition Summary

Calling on the Scottish Parliament to urge the Scottish Government to:

• improve air quality in health and social care settings through addressing ventilation, air filtration and sterilisation;
• reintroduce routine mask-wearing in those settings, particularly respiratory masks;
• reintroduce routine Covid testing;
• ensure staff manuals fully cover preventing airborne infection;
• support ill staff to stay home;
• provide public health information on the use of respiratory masks and the HEPA air filtration against airborne infections.

Petitioner: Sally Witcher

Status: Under consideration

Date published: 06 December 2023

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