Publication: Care of Non COVID Patients in COVID-19 Era
Date
2020
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Publisher
Kathmandu University
Abstract
ABSTRACT
The consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic are extensive and far-reaching.
Non COVID communicable diseases continue to spread and non-communicable
diseases continue to progress. People may access healthcare facilities little bit late
due to fear of contracting COVID-19 and present with severe symptoms, even with
complications. Nepal has been facing dual burden of both non-communicable and
communicable diseases. The number of COVID-19 patients has continuously been
rising in Nepal since the start of May 2020. There is an anticipated surge of infectious
disease such as malaria, dengue fever, enteric fever, scrub typhus, leptospirosis
during summer and monsoon seasons in Nepal. There will be surge of cases of
acute undifferentiated febrile illness (AUFI) during monsoon. As fever is one of
the very common symptoms of COVID-19, so COVID-19 needs to be considered in
differential diagnoses of acute undifferentiated febrile illness.
KEY WORDS
AUFI, COVID-19, Communicable disease, Nepal
Description
Piryani S,1 Piryani RM,2 Dangal G3
1Public Health Consultant, Karachi, Pakistan.
2Department of Internal Medicine,
Universal College of Medical Sciences,
Bhairahawa, Nepal.
3Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology,
Kathmandu Model Hospital,
kathmandu, Nepa
Keywords
AUFI, COVID-19, Communicable disease, Nepal