Perfusionists in India: The Unseen COVID-19 Warriors during the Pandemic Crisis

Document Type

Article

Publication Title

Journal of Chest Surgery

Abstract

Dear Editor, The world’s most extreme health crisis in the last year has been the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, which has affected over 200 countries and spread across 6 continents. By mid-March 2021, the World Health Organization had registered over 124 million cases and 2.7 million deaths worldwide. As one of the worst-affected regions, India has faced a rising trend, reporting more than 11 million active cases and 0.16 million deaths by the middle of March 2021 [1]. As this situation has turned into a tremendous healthcare crisis—heralded by the World Health Organization’s declaration on March 11, 2020 that COVID-19 had become a pandemic [2]—cooperation and support from all health care workers are anticipated. Like all other healthcare professionals, perfusionists are also working selflessly to counter this situation

First Page

331

Last Page

332

DOI

10.5090/jcs.21.024

Publication Date

1-1-2021

This document is currently not available here.

Share

COinS