Open AccessRendezvous of cancer patients with logistic and socioeconomic challenges during COVID-19 pandemic: A case series
Author(s) -
Raghav Gupta,
Riniki Sarma,
Seema Mishra,
Sushma Bhatnagar
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
indian journal of palliative care/indian journal of palliative care
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.395
H-Index - 26
eISSN - 1998-3735
pISSN - 0973-1075
DOI - 10.4103/ijpc.ijpc_159_20
Subject(s) - pandemic , medicine , socioeconomic status , covid-19 , government (linguistics) , disease , health care , cancer , environmental health , medical emergency , family medicine , economic growth , infectious disease (medical specialty) , pathology , population , linguistics , philosophy , economics
The coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic has shaken the health-care infrastructure worldwide and has led to enormous challenges for cancer patients. They are suffering on various fronts during this pandemic, especially the often overlooked ones such as logistic and socioeconomic. Through the case series, we have highlighted the various components of these challenges the cancer patients are facing and tried to emphasize that the health-care setups and government along with nongovernmental organizations have to come on the forefront to help the patients mitigate these challenges.