CHRONIC RESPIRATORY DISEASES MANAGEMENT DURING AND BEYOND COVID 19 PANDEMIC: A REVIEW ON CHANGES AND CHALLENGES

The COVID-19 pandemic has been a challenge to healthcare systems around the world, not only because of the diseases severity and high fatality rate, but also because of the effects on the treatment of people with chronic illnesses^[3]. The COVID-19 pandemic had caused effects on the treatment of people with chronic respiratory illnesses. This brought a great challenge to the healthcare systems around the world. The pandemic had a significant impact on routine medical activities by restricting access to specific diagnosis procedures, necessitating the creation of new techniques for illness monitoring, and requiring the adaptation of therapeutic approaches ^[4]. The health care system abruptly changed its care management strategy during the pandemic to a completely virtual, remote model, and the team continued to offer transitional care assistance for hospitalized patients to prevent the usual mistakes that are linked to bad results ^[12]. Therefore, this aims to review the changes and challenges in treating people with chronic respiratory illnesses during and beyond the Covid-19 pandemic.