Open AccessStrategies to ensure efficient laboratory functioning while navigating through the COVID-19 crisis in developing countries: An early experience from a tertiary care centre in India
Author(s) -
Puneet Kaur Somal,
Sankalp Sancheti,
Akash Sali,
Sandeep Bansal,
Supreet Kaur Kalra,
Anantika Thakur,
Neha Gupta,
Rakesh Kapoor
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
journal of cancer research and therapeutics/journal of cancer research and therapeutics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.475
H-Index - 39
eISSN - 0973-1482
pISSN - 1998-4138
DOI - 10.4103/jcrt.jcrt_613_20
Subject(s) - pandemic , covid-19 , medicine , personal protective equipment , tertiary care , medical laboratory , china , medical emergency , health care , environmental health , infectious disease (medical specialty) , family medicine , disease , economic growth , nursing , pathology , political science , outbreak , law , economics
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID 19) is a zoonotic viral infection that originated in Wuhan, China, in December 2019. It was declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization shortly thereafter. This pandemic is going to have a lasting impact on the functioning of pathology laboratories due to the frequent handling of potentially infectious samples by the laboratory personnel. To deal with this unprecedented situation, various national and international guidelines have been put forward outlining the precautions to be taken during sample processing from a potentially infectious patient.