Open AccessCare of Non COVID Patients in COVID-19 Era
Author(s) -
S. Piryani,
Rano Mal Piryani,
Ganesh Dangal
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
kathmandu university medical journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.166
H-Index - 25
eISSN - 1812-2078
pISSN - 1812-2027
DOI - 10.3126/kumj.v18i2.33070
Subject(s) - medicine , dengue fever , leptospirosis , pandemic , scrub typhus , covid-19 , malaria , communicable disease , intensive care medicine , infectious disease (medical specialty) , disease , environmental health , public health , virology , immunology , pathology
The consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic are extensive and far-reaching. Non COVID communicable diseases continue to spread and non-communicable diseases continue to progress. People may access healthcare facilities little bit late due to fear of contracting COVID-19 and present with severe symptoms, even with complications. Nepal has been facing dual burden of both non-communicable and communicable diseases. The number of COVID-19 patients has continuously been rising in Nepal since the start of May 2020. There is an anticipated surge of infectious disease such as malaria, dengue fever, enteric fever, scrub typhus, leptospirosis during summer and monsoon seasons in Nepal. There will be surge of cases of acute undifferentiated febrile illness (AUFI) during monsoon. As fever is one of the very common symptoms of COVID-19, so COVID-19 needs to be considered in differential diagnoses of acute undifferentiated febrile illness.