 Hi everyone, I am Dr. Aditya Sam, I am a medical gastroenterologist at Manipal Hospital. The COVID precautions which everyone needs to take are wear masks whenever necessary, especially when you are venturing out of your home just sanitize your hands every time you touch something or when you come back to your home after going outside and maintaining social distance, avoiding contact as much as possible. In the hospital we are following all these precautions. All patients are screened whenever they are entering into the hospital by thermal imaging so that any patient who is having temperature is always sent to a fever clinic rather than allowing the patient into the OPD. Each and every patient is also asked to maintain social distancing even when they are made to sit in the OPD by keeping spaces between two people to sit in a lift not more than four people are allowed to stand in order to avoid social distance. In the department of gastroenterology we are available 247. We are taking all precautions while doing procedures. All patients are screened properly prior to undergoing the endoscopy procedures. The departmental staff, the technicians, the doctors, as doctors we are also taking precautions of wearing the mask, sanitizing their hands and while doing the procedures. In the department of gastroenterology we are doing all emergency services, emergency procedures like patients who have blood vomiting, who have foreign body injections, elderly patients who have already undergone fight early patients who need peg insertions. All procedures are being carried out. These patients are advised in case of emergencies to contact the Manipal hospital help desk where they can always connect you to the ambulance and in case you want to come they can always help you to come to the hospital so that you can be treated as the other guest. OPD services are going on a routine basis. We are also available on video consultations. OPD services are usually for patients who have severe abdominal pain, yellowish discoloration of eyes, who actually require semi-emergent problems. For other patients who are on a regular follow up, for patients who can't come to the hospital in view of being in a different city and who are on a regular follow up, for them we are usually providing video consultation as a second option. They should always take the best utilization of the video consult so that they can maintain the zero contact and are always safe. Last but not the least safety starts from us. Stay safe.