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Guidance for building a dedicated health facility to contain the spread of the 2019 novel coronavirus outbreak

Preparedness for the ongoing coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and its spread in India calls for setting up of adequately equipped and dedicated health facilities to manage sick patients while protecting healthcare workers and the environment. In the wake of other emerging dangerous pathogens in r...

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Autores principales: Agarwal, Anup, Nagi, Nazia, Chatterjee, Pranab, Sarkar, Swarup, Mourya, Devendra, Sahay, Rima Rakeshkumar, Bhatia, Rajesh
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7288764/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32362643
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijmr.IJMR_518_20
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author Agarwal, Anup
Nagi, Nazia
Chatterjee, Pranab
Sarkar, Swarup
Mourya, Devendra
Sahay, Rima Rakeshkumar
Bhatia, Rajesh
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description Preparedness for the ongoing coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and its spread in India calls for setting up of adequately equipped and dedicated health facilities to manage sick patients while protecting healthcare workers and the environment. In the wake of other emerging dangerous pathogens in recent times, such as Ebola, Nipah and Zika, it is important that such facilities are kept ready during the inter-epidemic period for training of health professionals and for managing cases of multi-drug resistant and difficult-to-treat pathogens. While endemic potential of such critically ill patients is not yet known, the health system should have surge capacity for such critical care units and preferably each tertiary government hospital should have at least one such facility. This article describes elements of design of such unit (e.g., space, infection control, waste disposal, safety of healthcare workers, partners to be involved in design and plan) which can be adapted to the context of either a new construction or makeshift construction on top of an existing structure. In view of a potential epidemic of COVID-19, specific requirements to handle it are also given.
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spelling pubmed-72887642020-06-15 Guidance for building a dedicated health facility to contain the spread of the 2019 novel coronavirus outbreak Agarwal, Anup Nagi, Nazia Chatterjee, Pranab Sarkar, Swarup Mourya, Devendra Sahay, Rima Rakeshkumar Bhatia, Rajesh Indian J Med Res Policy Guidelines Preparedness for the ongoing coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and its spread in India calls for setting up of adequately equipped and dedicated health facilities to manage sick patients while protecting healthcare workers and the environment. In the wake of other emerging dangerous pathogens in recent times, such as Ebola, Nipah and Zika, it is important that such facilities are kept ready during the inter-epidemic period for training of health professionals and for managing cases of multi-drug resistant and difficult-to-treat pathogens. While endemic potential of such critically ill patients is not yet known, the health system should have surge capacity for such critical care units and preferably each tertiary government hospital should have at least one such facility. This article describes elements of design of such unit (e.g., space, infection control, waste disposal, safety of healthcare workers, partners to be involved in design and plan) which can be adapted to the context of either a new construction or makeshift construction on top of an existing structure. In view of a potential epidemic of COVID-19, specific requirements to handle it are also given. Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2020 /pmc/articles/PMC7288764/ /pubmed/32362643 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijmr.IJMR_518_20 Text en Copyright: © 2020 Indian Journal of Medical Research http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijmr.IJMR_518_20
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