Open AccessStrategies to provide care to Non-COVID Patients in the COVID Era: An Experience from a Tertiary Care Institute in Northern India
Author(s) -
Surekha Kishore,
Aroop Mohanty,
Vivek Hada,
Subodh Kumar,
Rama Shankar Rath
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
indian journal of community health/indian journal of community health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.149
H-Index - 9
eISSN - 2248-9509
pISSN - 0971-7587
DOI - 10.47203/ijch.2021.v33i02.034
Subject(s) - covid-19 , medicine , pandemic , health care , healthcare system , tertiary care , intensive care medicine , family medicine , economic growth , virology , pathology , disease , infectious disease (medical specialty) , outbreak , economics
With the COVID-19 pandemic the health system is facing dual burden of cases, one being the COVID-19 or Severe Acute Respiratory Illness (SARI) cases and the second being the other Non-COVID cases. The Non-COVID cases due to the burden of the SARI cases became almost neglected by the Health System increasing the sufferings of the Non-COVID cases. In the current COVID times All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Gorakhpur continued to provide the health care to the Non-COVID cases. The current manuscript provides the detailed strategy and results of the various strategies used to provide care to such Non-COVID patients with minimum risk to the healthcare staff.