<span style="color: #222222;">Health and Family Welfare Ministry has advised that the Personal Protective Equipment is to be used based on the risk profile of the health care worker.<br />''<br />''The Ministry has issued the additional guidelines on rational use of PPE for health functionaries working in non-Covid hospitals and non-treatment areas of a hospital which has a Covid block. The guidelines stress on the settings approach to guide on the type of personal protective equipment to be used in different settings.<br />''<br />''The Ministry has advised that PPEs are not alternative to basic preventive public health measures such as hand hygiene, respiratory etiquette which must be followed at all times. It also advised to follow the protocol of the Ministry for disposing off PPEs.</span><br />