 Ravichand Siddhachari, Consultant Hepatobiliary and Chief Transplant Surgeon at Manipal Hospital Spanguru. Now, as you all know that the lockdown 2 has come to an end and we are now into lockdown 3 where some of the zones are labelled red, green and orange and you know that some are relaxed. Now the hospitals are also opening up for more and more procedures, patients are coming in now. Now I would like to tell you about the R department, our patients, how we are going to do in future. So basically now we are taking all the precautions to ensure that the patients are safe in our hospital and they are you know going to get the best of the treatment. So what precautions we are taking at the moment in our hospital is that when they are coming into the hospital we make sure that the temperature is normal and make sure that their hands are clean by giving them hand sanitizer. We also advise the patients to wear the mask all the time and when they are coming to see the doctors you know their hands are clean and they are wearing the mask and they also maintain the social distance, wherever they are going they have to maintain the social distance. So keep calm, quiet and see the doctor when he is available. Now entering the OPD what I would like to tell you is not to touch anything unnecessarily touching things might you know transmit the disease. Now also my advice is not to you know bring any documents or papers from outside, better to have tests and investigations done at our hospital so the handling of the things are minimized. So these are the measures we would like to ensure and our theatres we are now starting the major operations we have already done few and in the theatres we are ensuring that the patient safety is not compromised anyway. So we make sure that whatever the procedure the anesthesia, the theatre, the handling of the instruments and the theatre personnel everything is fully taken care of where they are going post-operatively and all these things are nursing team is very good the post of management team is very good so they are handling these things. So till now thank God I mean we have not come across any major issues any major problems with our patients so hopefully we will continue to provide the best of the care in expert hands at Manipal Hospital's Bangalore. So in our department the department of surgical gastroenterology and liver transplantation and pancreatic transplantation we are conducting the transplants for all the patients and these patients we do the COVID testing before surgery make sure they are negative and after that you know all the precautions are taken care of so we have already done a couple of these transplants and they are all done well. Apart from the transplants we are doing major cancer surgeries such as you know the stomach, the intestine, the pancreas and the liver cancers these are being done and we are going to do as these are the life saving procedures and for these patients infectious disease specialists will see the patients they will categorize whether the patient needs which kind of precautions we need to take and depending on that we are going to take precautions and we ensure the safety of all the patients.