COVID-19 Lockdown effect: surge of alcohol withdrawal cases in emergency department

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https://doi.org/10.3126/jpahs.v7i1.28881

Keywords:

Alcohol Withdrawal, COVID-19, Lockdown

Abstract

States around the world has imposed lockdown to mitigate with COVID-19. This has caused unavailability of commodities including liquor. After lockdown, we observed increase in the number alcohol withdrawal cases in Emergency department of Patan hospital, Nepal. In contrast, during post-earthquake period in 2015 there was increase in number of alcohol intoxication cases. During pandemic time, along with managing COVID-19 cases, other alarming public health concerns should be noticed and necessary health support needs to be planned.

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Anupam Ghimire, Patan Academy of Health Sciences, Lagankhel, Nepal

Resident, Department of General Practice and Emergency Medicine
Patan Academy of Health Sciences, Lalitpur, Kathmandu, Nepal

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Published

2020-04-30

How to Cite

Ghimire, A. (2020). COVID-19 Lockdown effect: surge of alcohol withdrawal cases in emergency department. Journal of Patan Academy of Health Sciences, 7(1), 91–92. https://doi.org/10.3126/jpahs.v7i1.28881

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Vol. 7 No. 1 (2020)

Section

COVID-19: Short Communication/Perspective/Viewpoint

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