Protective measures for COVID-19 for healthcare providers and laboratory personnel

COVID-19: A Window of Opportunity for Positive Healthcare Reforms

The current coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is testing healthcare systems like never before and all efforts are now being put into controlling the COVID-19 crisis. We witness increasing morbidity, delivery systems that sometimes are on the brink of collapse, and some shameless rent seeking. However, besides all the challenges, there are also possibilities t...

Designing a Management Dashboard for Healthcare Professionals and Managers in the COVID-19 Epidemic

Background and Aim: Access to integrated information, up-to-date statistics, and timely diagnosis of the disease will help managers and health care providers to manage the crisis caused by the COVID-19 epidemic. In the present study, a management dashboard was designed by determining the key performance indicators of COVID-19. Methods: In the first step, using scientific articles published betw...

Healthcare Resource Management and Pandemic Preparedness for COVID-19: A Single Centre Experience From Jodhpur, India

Training Manual for Prevention of Covid-19 Disease among Hospital Personnel

Dear Editor In recent days, coronavirus disease (COVID-19) as a viral infection caused by the SARS-Cov-2 virus has become a pandemic disease and has created critical conditions worldwide [1]. According to previous studies on pathogenic viruses associated with acute respiratory distress syndrome, each virus has a specific virulence dose, which it is about 2×103-3×103 viral particles for the inf...

Why COVID-19 Laboratory Personnel Should Be Tested Before Attending the Laboratory: how even the most experienced personnel conta350minate clinical samples

Dear Editor in Chief  Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has resulted in a pandemic (1). Early diagnosis and testing of symptomatic individuals and asymptomatic carriers (2) remain essential since the latter group can transmit the virus (3,4). Current assays for SARS-CoV-2 detection are mostly based on quantitative real-time PCR (RT-qPCR)(5). However, cross-contaminat...