Abstract
Coronavirus (COVID-19) first identified in late December 2019 at Hubei province of China and had spread globally in mammoth proportions.[1] This pandemic is one of the greatest challenge medical fields that has ever faced. The disease by itself and measures taken to contain it has resulted in hampering health-care services to nonpandemic diseases. Reports of reduced hospital admissions for acute coronary syndromes and increased out of the hospital cardiac arrests reflect a compromised health system.[2],[3] Sustaining non COVID-19 facility in current pandemic has become a big challenge. The risk of transmission of infection among health-care personnels (HCPs) from HCPs to patients and requirement of quarantine of potentially exposed HCPs pose further burden on already constrained system. Continuing oncology services in the current pandemic have become even more difficult considering higher mortality rates of COVID-19 in cancer patients.[4],[5] Most guidelines have been revised and suggested tailored strategies in situ ations where the risk of infection outweighs the benefit of treatment.[6]
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