Open AccessCOVID-19 Lockdown effect: surge of alcohol withdrawal cases in emergency department
Author(s) -
Anupam Ghimire
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
journal of patan academy of health sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2091-2757
pISSN - 2091-2749
DOI - 10.3126/jpahs.v7i1.28881
Subject(s) - covid-19 , emergency department , pandemic , unavailability , medical emergency , emergency medicine , medicine , public health , virology , engineering , nursing , disease , outbreak , infectious disease (medical specialty) , reliability engineering
States around the world has imposed lockdown to mitigate with COVID-19. This has caused unavailability of commodities including liquor. After lockdown, we observed increase in the number alcohol withdrawal cases in Emergency department of Patan hospital, Nepal. In contrast, during post-earthquake period in 2015 there was increase in number of alcohol intoxication cases. During pandemic time, along with managing COVID-19 cases, other alarming public health concerns should be noticed and necessary health support needs to be planned.