 Hello everyone. I am Dr. Archana. I am the consultant in pediatric infectious disease at Manipal hospitals, Old Airport Road and Whitefield Bangalore. So I missed this COVID-19 infection everybody is running through the difficulties of which children with chronic medical conditions and chronic surgical conditions are going through the difficulties even more. So I am here to address few of the concerns of these children and how it can be tackled. There are many children with chronic conditions like chronic lung disorders or congenital heart diseases or anybody with diabetes and many people with primary immunodeficiencies who cannot come for that regular follow-up and cannot come for that regular updation of medications from the regular concepts. And there are many kids who have to postpone their elective procedures surgeries during this lockdown period to protect themselves from the COVID-19 infections. But these kids are actually in more risk of acquiring the COVID-19 infection. So it is always better to postpone the elective procedures in these kids and especially like for the children who have to undergo surgeries for congenital heart disease or elective procedures it could be a circumcision or anything it is better to actually postpone the surgery. And suppose if the children have to get their medications upgraded or they need a consult like especially the chronic lung diseases and chronic heart diseases then actually Manipal Hospitals provides the consultation facilities for these children from the respective specialty doctors. So such children can avail these facilities and they can get even the prescriptions from the respective specialty doctors so that you can buy those medications and keep them in stock for the next two weeks at least. And the other things are that try not to venture out during this period as much as possible because these kids are at higher risk when compared to the other normal kids. So other precautions which can be taken to avoid the COVID-19 infections are social distancing even within the family at least from those people who are those adults especially who are venturing out to buy the groceries from them better to social distancing that is it is called a protective social distancing of the child from those adults. And other than that you can encourage these children to follow the hand washing precautions you can encourage them to you know sing a rhyme like it could be a happy birthday song and then do the hand washing technique so they also will do it happily rather than that if the child has to come out for any emergency purpose then please do provide the child with a cloth mask and then get the child outside. So these are the precautions which you can follow and if the child has to be brought for some emergency visits to the hospital kindly call your respective pediatrician or the specialist doctor and inform them priorly so that the necessary arrangements are made in the hospital for the safe examination of the child so that the COVID patients and any other infected patients are not allowed during that particular period and also the waiting time for the consultation can be made to the minimal waiting time so that the consultation can be made fast and the child can be sent home safely. So other than this even with all these precautions suppose if the child develops the infection these are the symptoms you have to look out for especially for any fever, cough, cold, running nose or some children even present with diarrhea that is news tools or body aches and headache if the child presents with any of these symptoms kindly inform the pediatrician and get back to the hospital and these are the symptoms you have to look out for and kindly follow all the lockdown orders which have been given by the government and the regulations given by the government and please stay safe.