Managing cancer during COVID pandemic - Experience of a tertiary cancer care center.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

The COVID-19 pandemic has forced healthcare providers worldwide to bring in changes in the way cancer patients are cared for. Many cancer departments globally have brought in changes to their daily practice. This article is about our experience of evolving "COVID 19 PROTOCOL" devised in our department and taking a shape to suit a health care system with limited budget.

Materials and methods

All the patient census & details of department of surgical oncology, Royapettah cancer hospital, from month of March 2020 to July 2020, who were subjected to COVID protocol were compared to patient census of similar duration in immediate past five months of October 2019 to February 2020. The data from out-patient department, ward in-patient census and healthcare personnel data w

SUBMITTER: Subbiah S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7834458 | biostudies-literature | 2021 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature