Many healthcare professionals work day and night to combat the globally-occurring coronavirus epidemic. According to the constantly updated reports, scientists have been mobilized to prevent the epidemic, which is seen as the number of cases based on 1 million 250 thousand and the loss of life reached 68 thousand. Hospitals continue to serve at full capacity, quarantine and curfews are imposed in many countries. The scarcity of the number of masks that medical personnel can reach seems to be a common problem. Mask shortage across Michigan, the second region with the highest number of cases and casualties in the USA, is a known fact. The new information released by the hospital called Beaumont Health, on the other hand, seems to solve the mask problem experienced to help protect health personnel during the coronavirus outbreak. Masks used will be disinfected Bioengineers at Beaumont reported that they have developed a two-stage process to disinfect the N95 masks used by healthcare professionals treating Covid-19 patients. “Today, when there is a serious mask shortage at the national level, a method has been found to allow us to conserve our resources and reduce medical waste,” said Beaumont’s chief operating officer. Bioengineers said the newly developed disinfection process would allow the masks to be reused two to three times. It was also added to the statement that the disinfection of the masks took less than two hours after the two-step process. Beaumont chief quality officer Dr. said that the masks used will be placed inside the ultraviolet light machine for eight minutes during the first step of the process. “It has been proven that UV light kills the covid microbe,” said Sam Flanders. In the second step, the masks will be heated to 150 to 160 degrees in dry heat heating units for one hour. Let’s add here that masks that are visibly soiled or wet after the new method has been used will be discarded without disinfection. We will see how successful the two-stage process will be in the coming days.
