In a very short period of time, “COVID-19” has seized the consciousness globally by making remarkable changes in our day to day living and has superin-tended as a public health emergency globally It has high radar of transmis-sion, affecting an individual at work to frontline workers The measures and planning for a response plays a key role from drawing up an emergency com-mittee and this follows an equation which broadly deals with epidemiological to clinical history of the patient, management steps from isolation, screening, diagnostic assays for identification and treatment The application of an orga-nized plan with secure structure aids in better performance, increases efficacy of management and saves time Also saves time for a health care worker to g through routine levels of channels of administration if already a familiar way of operation is known for such situations Thus, planning and developing a ‘blueprint of approach’ towards management of patient while facing such situ-ation is a must This review provides an insight to the measures for detection, response and preparedness of the hospital and health care workers should largely be inclusive of;also highlights the measures to be taken at every step after coming in contact with a positive case of “COVID-19”
Stepping up detection, response, preparedness and readiness measures for “covid-19”-a pandemic