If hospitals functioning in Azerbaijan had preliminarily developed infection control programs, coronavirus would not have been so damaging because it is an airborne disease, Yagut Garayeva, head of the Disease Control and Prevention Department of the Management Union of Medical Territorial Units (TABIB), said.
According to her, if the rules of isolation had been applied to airborne diseases, perhaps the existing program would not have changed much: "The pandemic has given a big impetus to serious changes in the program. Hospitals already have at least initial isolation measures for incoming or outgoing patients. But we didn't think so before. Now, this issue is taken seriously."