Rendezvous of cancer patients with logistic and socioeconomic challenges during COVID-19 pandemic: A case series

Raghav Gupta, Riniki Sarma, Seema Mishra, Sushma BhatnagarIndian Journal of Palliative Care 2020 26(5):156-159 The coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic has shaken the health-care infrastructure worldwide and has led to enormous challenges for cancer patients. They are suffering on various fronts during this pandemic, especially the often overlooked ones such as logistic and socioeconomic. Through the case series, we have highlighted the various components of these challenges the cancer patients are facing and tried to emphasize that the health-care setups and government along with nongovernmental organizations have to come on the forefront to help the patients mitigate these challenges.
Source: Indian Journal of Palliative Care - Category: Palliative Care Authors: Source Type: research