• J Pak Med Assoc · May 2020

    Review

    The invisible victims - Impact of the pandemic on patients without COVID-19.

    • Muhammad Osama Rehman Khalid and Ramsha Zaheer.
    • Dr. Ziauddin Hospital, Clifton Campus, Karachi, Pakistan.
    • J Pak Med Assoc. 2020 May 1; 70(Suppl 3) (5): S149-S152.

    AbstractThe coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic has shocked the world to a standstill. Routine healthcare has been severely disrupted. Healthcare service is a finite resource and in the current pandemic situation the risks of providing care to individual patients, whether they be confirmed, probable or suspected cases, should be balanced against the ability to provide safe routine long-term care to others. But how far can the healthcare system protect itself and fear the unknown, before it starts causing harm by omission? Herein we provide a review of cases that were misdiagnosed, left stranded in the system or had to face unnecessary delays due to the lack of an organised pathway.

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