The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic has quickly spread to various countries. As on May 8th, 2020, in India 56342 positive cases of corona had been reported. India with a population of more than 1·35 billion had difficulty in controlling the transmission of coronavirus among its population. Multiple strategies became necessary to handle this outbreak. The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare of India raised awareness about this outbreak and to take all necessary actions to control the spread of COVID-19. Indian Government implemented a 55-day lockdown throughout the country to reduce the transmission of the virus. Schools and colleges had shifted to alternative mode of teaching-learning-evaluation and certification. Online mode became popular during these days. India was not prepared for a sudden onslaught of such a crisis due to limited infrastructure in terms of human resource, money and other facilities needed for taking care of this situation. This disease did not spare anybody irrespective of caste, creed, religion on the one hand and ‘have and have not’ on the other. Deficiencies in hospital beds, oxygen cylinders, ambulances, hospital staff and crematorium were the most crucial aspects. You are a hospital administrator in a public hospital at the time when coronavirus had attacked large number of people and patients were pouring into hospital day in and day out.

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Society ------ Hospitals and Doctors The ethical issues in the above case study are:

1. Negligency and Complacent behaviour to not address long term solutions despite the occurrence of outbreak frequently.
2. Poor doctoral ethics (mainly private) with greater focus on profit.
3. Tackling the issue for public welfare keeping long term solutions too in mind.

Following should be the immediate steps to be taken:

1. Fogging measures ensuring no more case emerges on immediate basis and doctors to be made available without any delay. → This will ensure safety of the one's who are protected till. → Doctors will ensure the proper delivery of treatment to the needy patients.
2. Ensuring private hospitals are working in full capacity and giving assurance by the physical presence by pacifying and solving the problem jointly by taking community members, media, local politicians, Civil society in active role.
3. Contact with other states for doctoral help and the techniques to solve by forming high level committee.
4. Asking for centre's help to show cooperative federalism to ensure public's safety and health.

Following can be the long term measures:

1. Strengthening public hospitals infrastructure as well as capacity to handle patients.
2. Long term awareness generation programmes by advertisement in newspapers, television as well as by nukkad nataks and such local programmes.
3. Taking public hospital staffs concern: by paying fair wages, security as well as solve their concerns.
4. Allocation of proper amount of budget in health and ensure it is used wisely for development and strengthening hospitals as well as delivery system.
5. Make private hospitals accountable and use of fear appeal of action if negligency is shown in future.
6. Fogging measures to be taken timely.
7. Grievance Redressal mechanism and cell to tackle the issue before it grows to such a large extent.
8. Increase the capacity of staff to tackle the health cases and ensure there is no shortfall.
9. Taking help of role model who can influence public (celebrity etc) of the precaution and preventive measures.