Abstract
Corona virus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a severe acute respiratory infection caused by corona virus-2 (SARS-CoV-2). It originated from Wuhan city of China in December 2019 and spread like a wild fire to the entire globe and was declared as global pandemic by WHO on March 11, 2020. With no available cure and vaccine, this disease has taken a mammoth toll on the human life; therefore, SMS (‘Social Distancing’, use of ‘Mask’ and regular hand washing with ‘Soap’) has emerged as a sole tool to prevent its spread. The Indian government declared the first lockdown from March 25th 2020 with subsequent second, third and fourth lockdowns up to 31st March 2020 to decrease the disease transmission and flatten the disease transmission curve. Aligarh Muslim University is one of the prestigious central and residential universities in India. It is located in Aligarh district adjoining national capital region. The university has an attached tertiary care ‘Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College Hospital’. This narrative review discusses the various steps and procedures taken up by the university and hospital administration, other functionaries, faculty members and doctors in tackling the serious pandemic until 22nd June 2020. The proactive role of administration, dedication and hard work of health care professionals and innovation of some academicians has given a new vista of opportunities to tackle this global health pandemic. The recovery rate of coronavirus patients at AMU hospital is recorded as 71.9%, which is much higher than national average recovery rate (56%). Thus, AMU model gives some positive insights to fight the current global pandemic.
 Bangladesh Journal of Medical Science Vol.19(0) 2020 p. S 28-S 35
Highlights
This study aims to understand the approaches and strategies taken at a tertiary care hospital to manage pandemic for both COVID patients and the nonCOVID patients attending hospital, who would have normally visited the outpatient departments (OPDs) for medical advice and what preventive measures the university administration has taken on the campus to curb the menace of COVID-19
Hydroxychloroquine is one of the drugs being tried as prophylaxis and management of COVID infection.[14]
Non-COVID patients are not found to be taken HCQ which could have been due to the lockdown and unavailability of hydroxychloroquine in most chemist shops.[16]
Summary
This study aims to understand the approaches and strategies taken at a tertiary care hospital to manage pandemic for both COVID patients and the nonCOVID patients attending hospital, who would have normally visited the outpatient departments (OPDs) for medical advice and what preventive measures the university administration has taken on the campus to curb the menace of COVID-19. Observations [A] Strategies adopted The medical hospital administration formulated various committees for management of pandemic COVID-19 with clear cut assignments and duties of each committee. [B] Patients’ Case Scenario Patients of non-COVID status having only elective surgery, pregnancy related issues or any serious in nature disease are treated in the hospital as customary. These non-COVID patients are taking advice by making phone calls or WhatsApp to doctors for confirmation to either continue or stop the drugs prescribed earlier. As of June 22nd 2020, total 105 COVID positive admissions were seen in the “Isolation Ward” so far including those positive cases from other districts and admitted at JNMC.
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