Open AccessExploratory study on the operational issues faced in collection, transportation, and laboratory testing related to COVID-19 in remote areas of selected EAG states of North East and East India
Author(s) -
Forhad Akhtar Zaman,
Sumit Aggarwal,
Ranabir Pal,
P. Chatterjee,
Kokab Kiran,
Srikanta Kumar Panda,
Utpal Sharma,
Tridibes Bhattacharya
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
journal of family medicine and primary care
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2278-7135
pISSN - 2249-4863
DOI - 10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_2130_20
Subject(s) - medicine , sample (material) , data collection , personal protective equipment , pandemic , protocol (science) , test (biology) , covid-19 , operations management , medical emergency , environmental health , engineering , disease , alternative medicine , pathology , paleontology , chemistry , statistics , infectious disease (medical specialty) , mathematics , chromatography , biology
COVID-19 ongoing pandemic has proved beyond doubt that all countries in the world from high income to low- and middle-income countries were unprepared with under-diagnosed and underreported losses of precious human lives on already overstretched healthcare delivery infrastructure. Thus, the urgent need of the hour is to understand and identify the operational issues and challenges encountered in the sample collection process and also at the testing labs in order to respond at the earliest. This early and effective response will help not only to address the identified issues in the whole chain of sample collecting to test result communication but also it will help to improve the functioning of the entire system involved in this process.