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Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), is an acute respiratory disease that spread widely around the world, causing increased morbidity and mortality. This was a retrospective observational analytical study from April 2020 to August 2021 in admitted COVID19 patients with Sickle Cell Anaemia, in King Saud Medical City. The study aims to evaluate the outcomes of COVID-19 in Sickle Cell Anaemia patients. Analyse the different prognostic factors to identify prognostic factors associated with mortality. The present study is composed of 13 SCD patients (53.8% male's vs 46.2% females) with a mean age of 29 years old. 6 patients (46.2%) had blood transfusions and 2 patients had bilateral infiltration after a chest x-ray. Patients who required intubation were 15.4% (n=2). 69.2% of the patients were being admitted and the median days of the hospital were 6 days. Finally, the primary limitation of this observational study is the few numbers of SCD who had COVID-19, which raises the possibility of type II statistical error due to the lack of power.
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Background: COVID-19 pandemic was a real challenge to healthcare systems worldwide, particularly in emerging nations;this study aims to provide a vision of the impact of COVID-19 pandemic on breast cancer (BC) management and reconstruction in Saudi Arabia. Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted across health care practitioners;we accumulated data by an online questionnaire from 58 physicians in different specialties about the effect of COVID-19 pandemic on their practice from March 2021 to May 2021. Results: About 45% of participants reduced medical practice during Covid-19 pandemic by 10 - 30 %, and 41% reduced medical practice by 31-50%. About half of the participants (48%) treated less than five breast cancer patients infected by Covid-19, and about 36% of patients developed Covid-19 infection under chemotherapy. Conclusion: there was a considerable reduction in providing health services to patients affected by breast cancer, yet Saudi Arabia managed to get out of this pandemic with the least damage possible due to governmental efforts. In capable countries and organizations, health authorities should share their expertise and experience to prevent damage to people already suffering from a devastating disease like breast cancer.
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The coronavirus, otherwise known as COVID-19 or SARS-CoV2, is a family of first detected viruses in the latter part of the year 2019 in Wuhan, China. It has leaped into a pandemic disease in just a short time reaching almost all populated parts of the world plunging economies while causing millions of deaths and it is still emerging spreading with more infectious mutations as of the end of 2020. It overwhelmed Government and health care institutions with the large turnout of infected. The virus transmission effectively occurs in close distance person-to-person interactions and contacts. Among the vulnerable group worst hit are the health care workers receiving the most brunt and social stigma. Health care workers of Hail were not spared and had experienced social stigma too. Such demeaning experiences have led to this study to explore the sentiments of nurses stricken by COVID-19. This study utilized the descriptive-qualitative research methods that include NVivo plus in analyzing the transcribed statements of respondents. The thematic analysis employed yielded the classification of the participants' responses within three themes: Personal sentiment, pessimistic image, and unsupportive environment. The nurses diagnosed positively with COVID-19 felt stigmatized in their workstation and the community during and after complete recovery and undertaking the mandatory quarantine period. Since this study is limited to hospital nurses, parallel research is highly recommended to investigate other healthcare workers' sentiments and determine what allows stigmatization of the COVID-19 patients. © 2021 The Authors. Published by IASE. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).