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CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 · Indian J Radiol Imaging 2021; 31(S 01): S213-S215
DOI: 10.4103/ijri.IJRI_749_20
Letters to the Editor

Challenges for extending radiology services during COVID-19 pandemic

Anagha R Joshi
Department of Radiology, Lokmanya Tilak Municipal Medical College and General Hospital, Sion, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
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Vikrant P Firke
Department of Radiology, Lokmanya Tilak Municipal Medical College and General Hospital, Sion, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
,
Vivek K Ukirde
Department of Radiology, Lokmanya Tilak Municipal Medical College and General Hospital, Sion, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
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All of us in various medical posts be it clinical or administrative have never really encountered such a situation in our entire life time. World was awakened by an unknown highly infectious virus “CORONAVIRUS” (COVID- 19/SARS-COV-2). Yes, it was a PANDEMIC which we were looking at. Thus realised that it would be a humongous challenge providing radiological services especially since the important factors like number of patients, symptomatology and severity of disease were unknown.

It originated from Wuhan in China and India started getting international passengers with a looming arrival of pandemic. Initially we got concerned to hear about the initial cases in India. It was unreal to watch doctors and paramedics treating patients in PPE on television/social media. But when we started hearing about the first case in Mumbai and finally the first case in our hospital, that we started getting the feeling that it’s really close now and knocking on our doors, April first week. Situation changed drastically in April when patients started pouring in like a deluge of the Mumbai monsoon.

LTMG Hospital is one of the few tertiary care providers in Mumbai having 1900 beds and we had to gear up for the upcoming challenge. As always in any crisis, this time also all branches and faculties along with all paramedics under the guidance of all HODs, Dean, Director and Hon. Municipal commissioners started working for it. Every step was learning step for all the faculties.



Publication History

Received: 11 September 2020

Accepted: 02 January 2021

Article published online:
13 July 2021

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