Sars-CoV-2 (COVID-19) Outbreak and Breast Cancer Surgery in Turkey
Güldeniz Karadeniz Çakmak, Vahit Özmen
Abstract
The initial COVID-19 outbreak in Wuhan, China, in December 2019 had devastating global effects in a short period of time. The disease rapidly spread globally and was announced as a pandemic on March 11 th by World Health Organization when the first case was officially declared in Turkey. Turkish Ministry of Health has established COVID-19 Scientific Committee, and this took precautions on time and emphasized to accelerate public awareness in terms of social distancing, route of transmission, the period of infectivity and basic protective measures by means of social and mass media. Before the first official case the leaderships of all hospitals around the country, irrelevant of governmental or private origin, established COVID-19 committees and began to get prepared for the worst possible scenario about infection. All the medical staff and health care providers obliged to enter courses about personal protective measures. The shifts of all working groups re-organized in case of overloading.