Revista de la Facultad de Medicina Humana (Jul 2022)

Impact of the Covid-19 pandemic in a specialized Tuberculosis unit

  • Xiomara Bernal-Duran,
  • Angel Cubas-Alcántara,
  • Karina Narváez Hidalgo,
  • María Navarro-Castro,
  • Renzo Villanueva-Villegas,
  • Félix Llanos-Tejada

DOI
https://doi.org/10.25176/RFMH.v22i3.4984
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 22, no. 3
pp. 650 – 652

Abstract

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Dear editor, The COVID-19 pandemic has negatively affected other disease prevention and control programs that could cause more deaths than the coronavirus itself (1), and also having substantial consequences for other domains, such as social impact: slowing economic growth and increasing rates of unemployment, poverty, and food insecurity.