Hydroxychloroquine prophylaxis in healthcare workers during the covid-19 pandemic

This is a non-interventional study of 124 health care workers at a tertiary care hospital, who completed a questionnaire-based survey, sent out as an electronic form to potential responders during the COVID-19 pandemic. All these respondents had taken HCQ as prophylaxis ,as recommended by the National Task Force for COVID-19 ,constituted by the Indian Council of Medical Research, Delhi on March 22nd 2020.It has been observed that many healthcare workers besides doctors need to be made more aware of the possible side -effects of HCQ.