“I see most of the people putting out their hands for their body temperature to be taken. This is wrong. The forehead is the right body part from which the temperature reading should be taken," says Simon Rukundo, head of temperature laboratory, Uganda National Bureau of Standards (UNBS).
He emphasized that users of the temperature guns should strictly follow instructions given by the manufacturers in the user’s manual regarding how the instrument should be used, stored, cleaned and disinfected.
One of the solutions to misuse the guns is to frequently take it for re-calibration even beyond what the manufacturer recommends because there are many factors that affect their effectiveness.