ABSTRACT
Disasters and pandemics raise distinctive challenges to healthcare system. The Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic is swiftly spreading worldwide which is leading to the increased risk of morbidity and mortality. Telepharmacy and telehealth service serve as a modern approach to seek new opportunities to improve patient care particularly effective during epidemic outbursts when implementing social distance systems is recommend by health authorities such as World Health Organization (WHO). It served as a contemporary approach for the healthcare providers to deliver pharmaceutical services through telecommunications technology i n distant populations as well as to allow pharmacist and patients to connect via using smartphones or webcam to seek information regarding medication dispensing, patients counseling, and prescription verification. It is a fruitful and proactive way to provide a variety of benefits to patients seeking healthcare services. Telepharmacy will be a great boon for a country like India with very huge population, where people from remote areas retail cannot reach to a pharmacy, now can order and buy medicines, protective equipment’s like masks, gloves and face shields through online pharmacy. It will help to avoid direct contact between the pharmacist and costumers that will be beneficial in reducing the chances of community spread of COVID-19 and will promote social distancing concept among the people.
ABSTRACT
In December 2019, there was a flare-up of the unidentified reason for pneumonia that overwhelmed the vast majority of the world. This infection has a place with β-corona virus, an enormous class of infections common in nature. On the 11th of February 2020, W.H.O named this disease as COVID-19 (Corona virus Disease 2019). This novel corona virus is to be believed to get spread from the bat and later on a human to human transmission. These patients gave indications of extreme pneumonia including fever, weakness, dry cough and respiratory trouble. Still, the exact mechanism of its approach has not been cleared yet. But it’s said to be the same as the previous strain of it like SARS-CoV and MERS-CoV. It has been affirmed that the COVID-19 also uses the cell section receptor i.e.;ACE2 as the SARS-CoV. The COVID-19 said to transmit starting with one then onto the next individual, so it is important to totally intrude on human-to-human transmission. Another method to control the spread is to avoid the diligence of corona viruses on inanimate surfaces because of various kinds of materials it can stay irresistible for 2 hours as long as 9 days. The typical standards are keeping up hydration and sustenance and controlling fever and cough. The typical standards are keeping up hydration and sustenance and controlling fever and cough. But still, the previously used antiviral drugs as well as like antibody and convalescent plasma as a potential therapy were used in the treatment.