Dr. Maheshwar Prasad Chaurasia - Just Switch Off CORONA: Covid-19: 21 Facts, Updates & Tips must to study for safety at home, travel or workplace

Dedicated to

MY PARENTS

Late Sh. Jagdish Chaurasia,

now in better world,

and

Smt. Savitri Devi

Both of whom made me grow from a zero in village

To where I am today

Declaration:

Proceeds from this book will go to Trust/NGOs

for Social Works.

Preface

This book is particularly written for purpose of awareness of the General Public, people working in offices, malls, markets and hospitality industry, business heads owning them, and the travellers, detailing facts about Covid-19 and the tips to protect themselves from it.

Being posted in the Department of Medicine at Deen Dayal Upadhyay Hospital, Hari Nagar, New Delhi and managing the corona pandemic, heading related sections of hospital as Additional Medical Superintendent has been very exhaustive, working day and night since the first lockdown period of the country. We have been associated very closely with establishing very early quarantine centres in Delhi near IGIA, scanning thousands of passengers brought home from abroad stuck abroad due to aviation restrictions, under Vande Bharat Mission and isolating them in quarantine centres. Later managing corona isolation wards, the 24 X 7 screening centre FLUCORNER along with testing facility at hospital for the general public and extending parental support to the Covid Testing Centres, Covid Care Centres and Covid Health Centres in south west and west districts of Delhi have been our routine and is still continuing with extending support to recently established 10,000 bedded Sardar Patel Covid Care Centre at Radha Swami Satsang Vyas, Bhati Mines, Chhatarpur, a special effort by Govt. of Delhi in association with Govt. of India.

Passing through the difficult time managing these situation and going day by day through the different studies on this newly known Novel Coronavirus 2019-nCoV, later named by WHO as SARS-CoV-2, and different guidelines from ICMR, NCDC, WHO and premier institute AIIMS, has been routine. They have established milestones in the management and preventive measures in patient care and general awareness.

Getting queries from medical professionals as well as general population, near and dear ones, friends and relatives on behavior of coronavirus and relevant aspects of Covid-19 disease has been so frequent that it motivated me to write the different facts, updates and tips on this serial killer virus in the form of a book JUST SWITCH OFF CORONA - with aim to make general public aware and take preventive measures so that this danger to the mankind gets switched off.

Here, I want also to declare that I am writing this book in my personal capacity and my views in this book are personal and not as a govt. servant. And proceeds from this book will be donated to the trust or NGOs for social works.

The facts in the book have been based on the personal experiences and facts verified from WHO, CDC, US NML and ICMR websites. Multiple pictorials and facts have been used from WHO and MyGov Newsdesk, Government of India websites to make the information interesting and factual. Actually these organisations are really doing gigantic task to make the world aware and get free from pandemic. That fact itself further motivated me to do at least my part whatever I can do for awareness of the non medical general population badly suffering from the eventualities of Coronavirus.

And the experiences and strategies of heads and experts working on ground, fighting corona, have also been shared in book in between related chapters to inspire the readers and office heads. They may replicate the strategies in their organisations and at their workplaces, home or during travel.

I hope my work will be helpful to empower the readers easily with the knowledge behind the complexity of Covid-19 in simpler words. And it will give them easy tips protecting self, and, thereby the community as well.

Acknowledgement

The task to write in detail about the ongoing pandemic Covid-19 detailing important things about the virus, its effects, symptoms, essentials about isolation and all about protective gears has been exhaustive and wouldnt have been possible without inputs from different sources.

First of all, I acknowledge all my gurus at my own hospital, where I worked in nineties as resident, Dr. Naveen Kumar, Dr. D. D. Golani, Dr. Ravi Pathak, Dr. Anil Garg and our Ex-HOD Dr. P. K. Pathak, from whom I have imbibed the clinical knowledge and working tactics for difficult situations. At this moment I also remember my alma mater and the then Principal of Darbhanga Medical College Late Dr. KC Brahmu, a legend anatomist, his then colleaugues, and all my batchmates of 1985 batch who expressed extra emotions for me during graduation days and have been as extended family.

All our residents and all paramedical and sanitation staff have been the boon for the gigantic task of tackling corona patients and the suspects. They deserve salutes and solicitation.

I acknowledge the WHO, CDC, US NML and NCBI, the National Centre for Biotechnology Information, and Govt. of India websites of ICMR including its NIOH, MOHFW and MyGov Corona Newsdesk for the valuable facts and inputs used in the book for awareness of the general public.

Multiple pictorials and facts have been used from WHO and MyGov Newsdesk, Government of India Initiative. Similarly few pictorials/visuals seen circulating on Whatsapp platform and found impressive as well as informative have also been added in the concerned sections to make the readers understand easily. I acknowledge all such websites, social media platforms and the creators of the wonderful visuals.

I acknowledge the Wikipedia and its founders and participants for the relevant inputs and visuals that otherwise are not available at all. They are the ones empowering humanity availing facts and history.

A sincere thanks to Outlook India, The Hindu, The Times of India and Twitter which helped me gather crucial informations to share a clear perspective of the different aspects of corona related issues.

I also acknowledge Google and Microsoft to give opportunity to type and draw the manuscript with all the corrections automatically, and being the magic tool for quick search for me and the world. World is not complete now without you and your accessories.

I acknowledge Sh. Bhagwan Shankar, IAS, Addl. Chief Secretary, Sikkim Govt. and Dr. A. K. Mehta, Medical Director, DDU Hospital for the encouraging foreword for the book.

For my book I requested email interviews of some experts and dignitaries to share their views directly to the readers to give them the grass root experiences and they have been kind enough to oblige with inputs. It includes Sh. Rahul Singh, IAS, DM South-West Delhi, Dr. Ajit Shewale, Public Health Specialist, NCDC, Dr. Jyoti Kumar, DGM (CC), GAIL (India) Limited, Dr. Shambhu Nath Chowdhary, District Nodal (Covid), Lohardaga, Jharkhand, Dr. Om Prakash Chaurasia, Gastroenterologist from California, USA; Fellow Radiation Oncology, Dr. Rituraj Upadhyay, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, USA and celebrated Chef Sh. Saurav Nath from London. I thank all of them for sharing their expertise.