Interesting question, as a Muslim, we need to pray and to return to God. Only in the remembrance of Allah will your hearts find peace. In Quran we find this verse:

الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا وَتَطْمَئِنُّ قُلُوبُهُم بِذِكْرِ اللَّهِ ۗ أَلَا بِذِكْرِ اللَّهِ تَطْمَئِنُّ الْقُلُوبُ

Means: Those who have believed and whose hearts are assured by the remembrance of Allah. Unquestionably, by the remembrance of Allah hearts are assured

During the SARS epidemic, we continued to see patients with everyone wearing masks and gloves. I think now its all virtual.

In our state from today onwards only cases needing emergency care are seen and rest patients are asked to continue their treatment as usual till the next two weeks till further notice from the government.

In our country it is similar. The Slovak government banned any public event and gathering for two weeks. We have passed one week and we will see what will be next. At out psychiatric clinic in Banská Bystrica (the center of middle Slovakia), we have a patient´s filter in place to ask about the epidemiological history and the eventual symptoms of COVID-19 before letting the patient in. In the case of COVID-19 positivity or suspection to it, the patient should be admitted to an infectious clinic and treated by a psychiatric consultant from a psychiatric perspective.

In Slovenia outpatients are not accepted anymore, if this is not necessary (all parts of medicine). Therefore all outpatients settings have rescheduled their appointments and patients have options to be consulted by their psychiatrists via phone or even Skype/Zoom/W Teams, if it is possible (depend on the hospital). Another story are inpatients, which are treated within the hospitals but all non-important meetings have been rescheduled including most patients in daily hospitals. Inpatients are in separate rooms, if it is possible in every hospital. Emergency setting is working in each hospital and clinicians and nurses are in masks and gloves. Other healthcare professionals are connected when necessary and respect all important details and recommendations provided by Slovenian Ministry of Health. As clinical pharmacist I work also in my outpatient setting with gloves and mask but I am trying to discuss with patients via phone or Skype. With clinicians and nurses I am trying to discuss via phone or Microsoft Teams. About some pharmacological issues and questions, within the hospitals, we use Microsoft Teams where it is applicable. The biggest problems are closed wards including acute patients and psychogeriatric wards where are many demented patients. Within psychogeriatric ward many workers are needed to cope with this problems, because patients are moving within the ward. If we have received acute patients with COVID-19 we are trying to send patients to general hospitals where we have COVID-19 departments. In addition, infections are very important part of psychiatric hospitals although there are few studies on this topics. Antibiotics are especially problematic in terms of DDIs with psychotropics. I have done some research on this topic if you are interested. In my practice I am checking antibiotic prescribing also in psychiatric hospitals daily.

We are likely to see a boom in telepsychiatry.

My division is performing TeleMedicine Assessments on all behavioral health pts coming in to the ER with mental health issues. This is also being used in the ER for Neuro / Stroke evals. The ER Physician is still performing an In Person Eval / H & P. We're using the "In Touch" Software / System for our TeleMedicine. I'm in Virginia (USA).

Dear Michal,

Perhaps this correspondence from The Lancet might be of interest to you? https://www.thelancet.com/action/showPdf?pii=S2215-0366%2820%2930090-0

All the very best,

Jessica

We have kept going and our stats would show greater engagement with patients with the use of telemedicine, we were well resourced with the necesary IT and we work in a geographically scattered enviroment so patients answers calls when they wouldnt turn up for clinics , we were also lucky to have the space to allow consultation in observation rooms for those we needed to see and they camebec ause they felt it was safe

WE contineu see patients by wearing mask and using sanitizers frequently