 Kalyan, head of the Department of Orthopedic Surgery at Manipal Hospital, Bangalore. As you know, the COVID pandemic has caused a complete disruption of normal life. The national lockdown has been imposed since March 24, 2020 and all normal life has come to a stop. We had been doing emergency surgeries during the ancient part of the lockdown because the state government and the national government wanted us to conserve our resources for only emergency cases. Fortunately, the COVID situation is coming under control and the state government and the national government has now allowed elective surgeries. The safety of our patients undergoing elective surgeries is uppermost in our mind. Along with the management and the surgical hands-up department at Manipal Hospital, Bangalore, we arrived at a safe protocol for conducting elective surgeries. Before elective surgeries, all our patients are screened and this stratification is done for COVID status. Wherever it is necessary and required under the guidelines set forth by the ICMR, we do the COVID testing of these patients. The patients are counseled about the risks of COVID transmission and all the precautions that we are taking. They are assured that any of our healthcare workers who have got symptoms of COVID will not attend duty so that everybody who is there on duty is healthy. We take in lots of precautions to do sanitization, isolation of patients. So we have one ward in the hospital which is only for inter-district and outside state patients. We have one ward in the hospital which is reserved only for patients undergoing elective surgery. That is patients who are completely COVID negative and the other people on the floor will also be COVID negative undergoing elective surgeries and we have another place completely isolated for the suspected COVID patients and suspected COVID IC. So in the hospital we have taken every single precaution taking all the international guidelines into account. We are compliant with the state government guidelines. We are compliant with the Indian Orthopedic Association guidelines. We are compliant with the guidelines set forth by the consensus group of orthopedic surgeons and we are very happy to say that all the patients undergoing elective surgery have come willingly and happily knowing everything and our elective surgeries have started almost about 8 days ago and so far whatever elective surgeries we have done in orthopedics all the patients are fine, they are comfortable and as life returns to normal we don't want to deny healthcare to anybody. So I just want to reassure you that if you come to Manipal Hospital for elective surgeries every precaution will be taken before you enter the hospital, before you get admitted the number of attenders will be restricted, our interaction with you will be completely safe and we will send you home as safely as possible after elective surgery during these difficult COVID times. So please don't get worried or scared. We are here to help you and we are here to care for you. If you choose to undergo elective surgery please do come to us if you choose to we will be happy to serve you. Thank you.