I knew that many doctors and nurses and other health-care personnel in the Federation had dedicated their lives to tending to the elderly, the infirm, and the sick.

Because the AMoH provided salaries for health-care personnel, it could enforce compulsory reporting, through monetary fines and professional demotions.

The major rationale for this kind of program is to prevent tragic and catastrophic infection of health-care personnel, particularly during high-risk procedures such as open-heart surgery.

All institutions where health-care personnel (HCP) might experience exposures should have a written policy for management of exposures.

Infection control practioners and other health-care personnel also should be alert for clusters of pneumonia among two or more health-care workers who work in the same facility.

The definitions of health-care personnel (HCP) and occupational exposures are unchanged from those used in 2001 (3).

On questions of abortion and euthanasia, this right should be legally guaranteed to "physicians, health-care personnel, director of hospitals, clinics and convalescent facilities," he said.

Many infections that occurred before widespread vaccination of health-care personnel probably resulted from unapparent exposures (e.g., inoculation into cutaneous scratches, lesions, or mucosal surfaces) (12).

In Italy, government officials foresee empty classrooms and thousands of unemployed teachers, with shortages of service industry workers and health-care personnel to care for older people.

To address concerns over health, the Chinese greatly increased the number and quality of health-care personnel, although in 1986 serious shortages still existed.