Struggle Against Pandemic in A Private Hospital: What We Have Learnt from Pandemic?

Turk Thorac J. 2020 Sep;21(5):357-360. doi: 10.5152/TurkThoracJ.2020.20094. Epub 2020 Sep 1.

Abstract

Corona Virus disease 2019 (COVID-19), which is one of the biggest outbreaks in the last century and is caused by a kind of coronavirus, spread to many countries in a short time after being first seen in the Wuhan region of China in December 2019. The COVID-19 outbreak, which spread rapidly and caused many deaths, was declared as a pandemic by the World Health Organization on March 11, 2020. The first COVID-19 case in Turkey, coincidentally, was seen on the same day. In this article, the story of the pandemic struggle successfully carried out in a private hospital and the teachings of the process are provided.