COVID-19 Pandemic: Two-year Experience and Response of a Teaching Hospital in Malaysia and the Effect on Postgraduate Orthopaedic Training
https://doi.org/10.5704/MOJ.2207.001
- Author:
Kow RY
1
;
Khalid KA
1
;
Zakaria Z
1
;
Awang MS
2
Author Information
1. Department of Orthopaedics, Traumatology and Rehabilitation, International Islamic University Malaysia, Kuantan, Malaysia
2. Directors Office, Sultan Ahmad Shah Medical Centre @IIUM, Kuantan, Malaysia
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
COVID-19, guideline, outbreak, pandemic, public health
- From:Malaysian Orthopaedic Journal
2022;16(No.2):1-14
- CountryMalaysia
- Language:English
-
Abstract:
As the number of COVID-19-related infections and deaths
increased exponentially in the during 2020, few countries
were equipped to manage and curb this novel coronavirus.
Initially there was no proven cure or vaccine to this novel
virus (SARS-Cov-2), leaving the authorities with no choice
but to impose quarantines at the short-term expense of their
economies. As we gain more knowledge on this novel virus,
the tried-and-tested method of selective testing of the
symptomatic patients, used successfully in almost all
infectious respiratory diseases, has been replaced with traceand-test method, as most of the infected patients remained
asymptomatic. In early 2021, the availability of vaccines
provided a shed of light out from this pandemic.
Nevertheless, we faced an enormous task in juggling
between vaccination of the population, managing patients
with COVID-19 infection as well as non-COVID-19
patients. Here, we share our experience and response in
managing this healthcare crisis across a two-year period
during the pandemic and we hope other centres can learn
from what we went through and help them derive a protocol
to navigate through a future pandemic.
- Full text:16.2022my1243.pdf
