There is no author summary for this article yet. Authors can add summaries to their articles on ScienceOpen to make them more accessible to a non-specialist audience.
Abstract
Dear Editor,
India is under lockdown since 25th March 2020 due to COVID-19 pandemic. India has
81,000 cases till date (15th May 2020) and we yet to reach at the peak. Delhi is at
4th place after Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, and Gujrat with 8470 cases and 115 deaths.
Our residents, across all specialities, are frontline warriors in this difficult time.
They are fighting not only with the disease but also with the shortage of PPE kits,
N95 masks, and other infrastructure. Though government of India and all state governments
are doing their best, still all the medical associations and medical community as
a whole has a responsibility to protect/support their warriors.
Delhi State Chapter of Association of Surgeons of India has taken a lead in this under
guidance of its president, Prof. (Dr.) Pawanindra Lal, ably supported by dynamic secretary,
Dr. Tarun Mittal, Treasurer (author) and all EC members. Our state chapter asked for
voluntary donations for this noble cause from all sections of the society. We received
a significant amount to procure PPE kits, N95 masks, hand sanitizers etc., and all
of them were distributed among different COVID hospitals of Delhi.
Delhi State Chapter has also started its monthly meeting on electronic platform from
16th May 2020. March and April meetings were cancelled due to government’s directive.
These meetings are resumed so that residents and practising surgeons can update their
surgical knowledge in this difficult time.
Long live ASI, Long live Delhi state Chapter...
Regards
This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted research
re-use and secondary analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of
the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the World Health
Organization (WHO) declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic.