How Did We Deal with the Pandemic? - Experience from a Tertiary Health Institute in Eastern India
With the introduction of the novel coronavirus in late 2019, the healthcare system of every country in the world experienced many challenges. In India, every healthcare organization has prepared itself to fight against these global challenges. This study aims to describe the challenges faced during...
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| author | Jawahar S. K. Pillai Biswajeevan Sahoo Thean Singh Siddharth Mishra Ramkrishna Mondal Kiran MV Kumar |
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| description | With the introduction of the novel coronavirus in late 2019, the healthcare system of every country in the world experienced many challenges. In India, every healthcare organization has prepared itself to fight against these global challenges. This study aims to describe the challenges faced during the COVID-19 pandemic and how we dealt with the pandemic successfully. This narrative analysis study was made in a 960-bedded teaching hospital during the pandemic. The challenges were identified from the minutes of meetings, circulars issued, and various strategic decisions made to combat the pandemic. The challenges faced by the institute were categorized into nine different categories: infrastructural, human resource, hospital operations, and others. Lack of knowledge during the initial days of the pandemic, need for round-theclock situational management, and day-to-day operation needed aggressive training and adherence to the guidelines. Gaps identified in areas like inventory, infection control, logistics, etc., were quickly addressed, and processes were created as per the nation’s changing guidelines. This study revealed strategies to manage the pandemic by optimally utilizing available resources with good teamwork and situational leadership. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-49f2162b25644ed6813826cf157201072025-01-25T05:22:43ZengWolters Kluwer Medknow PublicationsIndian Journal of Public Health0019-557X2229-76932024-04-0168232632810.4103/ijph.ijph_1444_22How Did We Deal with the Pandemic? - Experience from a Tertiary Health Institute in Eastern IndiaJawahar S. K. PillaiBiswajeevan SahooThean SinghSiddharth MishraRamkrishna MondalKiran MV KumarWith the introduction of the novel coronavirus in late 2019, the healthcare system of every country in the world experienced many challenges. In India, every healthcare organization has prepared itself to fight against these global challenges. This study aims to describe the challenges faced during the COVID-19 pandemic and how we dealt with the pandemic successfully. This narrative analysis study was made in a 960-bedded teaching hospital during the pandemic. The challenges were identified from the minutes of meetings, circulars issued, and various strategic decisions made to combat the pandemic. The challenges faced by the institute were categorized into nine different categories: infrastructural, human resource, hospital operations, and others. Lack of knowledge during the initial days of the pandemic, need for round-theclock situational management, and day-to-day operation needed aggressive training and adherence to the guidelines. Gaps identified in areas like inventory, infection control, logistics, etc., were quickly addressed, and processes were created as per the nation’s changing guidelines. This study revealed strategies to manage the pandemic by optimally utilizing available resources with good teamwork and situational leadership.https://journals.lww.com/10.4103/ijph.ijph_1444_22covid-19 managementcommunicationhuman resource developmenthospital infection controlleadershipstrategic planningsupply chain management |
| spellingShingle | Jawahar S. K. Pillai Biswajeevan Sahoo Thean Singh Siddharth Mishra Ramkrishna Mondal Kiran MV Kumar How Did We Deal with the Pandemic? - Experience from a Tertiary Health Institute in Eastern India Indian Journal of Public Health covid-19 management communication human resource development hospital infection control leadership strategic planning supply chain management |
| title | How Did We Deal with the Pandemic? - Experience from a Tertiary Health Institute in Eastern India |
| title_full | How Did We Deal with the Pandemic? - Experience from a Tertiary Health Institute in Eastern India |
| title_fullStr | How Did We Deal with the Pandemic? - Experience from a Tertiary Health Institute in Eastern India |
| title_full_unstemmed | How Did We Deal with the Pandemic? - Experience from a Tertiary Health Institute in Eastern India |
| title_short | How Did We Deal with the Pandemic? - Experience from a Tertiary Health Institute in Eastern India |
| title_sort | how did we deal with the pandemic experience from a tertiary health institute in eastern india |
| topic | covid-19 management communication human resource development hospital infection control leadership strategic planning supply chain management |
| url | https://journals.lww.com/10.4103/ijph.ijph_1444_22 |
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