Open AccessStruggle Against Pandemic in A Private Hospital: What We Have Learnt from Pandemic?
Author(s) -
Öner Dikensoy,
Sezen Özkök,
Edvin Murrja,
Atakan Yeşıl,
Filiz Tüzüner,
Tamer Karşıdağ
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
turkish thoracic journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.257
H-Index - 7
ISSN - 2149-2530
DOI - 10.5152/turkthoracj.2020.20094
Subject(s) - pandemic , outbreak , covid-19 , china , geography , political science , history , economic growth , socioeconomics , virology , disease , medicine , infectious disease (medical specialty) , sociology , law , economics , pathology
Corona Virus disease 2019 (COVID-19), which is one of the biggest outbreaks in the last century and is caused by a kind of coronavirus, spread to many countries in a short time after being first seen in the Wuhan region of China in December 2019. The COVID-19 outbreak, which spread rapidly and caused many deaths, was declared as a pandemic by the World Health Organization on March 11, 2020. The first COVID-19 case in Turkey, coincidentally, was seen on the same day. In this article, the story of the pandemic struggle successfully carried out in a private hospital and the teachings of the process are provided.