Preparing for a COVID-19 pandemic: Redefining roles of multidisciplinary team in a large tertiary hospital in Rajasthan

Abhay Elhence; Binit Sureka; Mahendra Kumar Garg; Pankaj Bhardwaj; Tanuj Kanchan; Arvind Sinha; Pradeep Kumar Bhatia; Vijaya Lakshmi Nag; Nikhil Kothari; Naveen Dutt; Suryanarayanan Bhaskar; Vibhor Tak; N R Bishnoi; Sanjeev Misra

doi:10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_1091_20

Preparing for a COVID-19 pandemic: Redefining roles of multidisciplinary team in a large tertiary hospital in Rajasthan

J Family Med Prim Care. 2020 Nov 30;9(11):5439-5444. doi: 10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_1091_20. eCollection 2020 Nov.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ COVID-19 Committee Member: Department of Orthopaedics, All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Basni, Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India.
² COVID-19 Committee Member: Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Basni, Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India.
³ COVID-19 Committee Member: Department of Pulmonary and Internal Medicine, All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Basni, Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India.
⁴ COVID-19 Committee Member: Department of Community Medicine and Family Medicine, All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Basni, Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India.
⁵ COVID-19 Committee Member: Department of Forensic Medicine, All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Basni, Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India.
⁶ COVID-19 Committee Member: Department of Pediatric Surgery, All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Basni, Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India.
⁷ COVID-19 Committee Member: Department of Anaesthesiology and Critical Care, All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Basni, Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India.
⁸ COVID-19 Committee Member: Department of Microbiology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Basni, Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India.
⁹ COVID-19 Committee Member: Department of Pulmonary Medicine, All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Basni, Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India.
¹⁰ COVID-19 Committee Member: Department of Neurosurgery, All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Basni, Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India.
¹¹ COVID-19 Committee Member: Department of Deputy Director Administration, All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Basni, Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India.
¹² COVID-19 Committee Member: Department of Director and CEO, Professor Surgical Oncology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Basni, Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India.

Abstract

Through this manuscript, we would like to share our experience with building a COVID hospital, allocating duties, planning and managing supplies during COVID-19 pandemic. This manuscript is prepared by the Doctors of various specialties with vast experience involved in actual planning of the infrastructure and resources. This comprehensive manuscript will help teams to prepare and train, stockpile necessary equipment and prepare their staff to deal with current crisis if there is a surge in infected cases.

Keywords: COVID-19; Rajasthan; hospital; pandemic; preparedness.