Setting up a COVID-19 Care Facility at a Prison in Pakistan

• Sponsor: Services Institute of Medical Sciences, Pakistan (Other)
• Overall Status: Completed
• CT.gov ID: NCT04404179
• Collaborator: (none)
• Enrollment: 69
• Location: 1
• Actual Duration (Months): 1.2
• Patients Per Site Per Month: 58.3

Study Details

Study Description

Brief Summary

Presenting outline of the steps taken by our team to set up a Covid Care facility within the Prison setting. The facility was set up at Camp Jail (Lahore District Jail) located on Ferozpur Road, Lahore.

Condition or Disease	Intervention/Treatment	Phase
COVID-19	Other: COVID-19 FACILITY

Detailed Description

A prisoner brought to Camp Jail developed symptoms of and later tested positive for COVID-19. This lead to almost 527 contacts. An outbreak was expected. To manage the situation , a COVID-19 Care Facility was established within the prison. The study describes the steps taken by the team to set up this facility.

Study Design

• Study Type: Observational
• Actual Enrollment: 69 participants
• Observational Model: Case-Only
• Time Perspective: Prospective
• Official Title: Setting up a COVID-19 Care Facility at a Prison in Pakistan
• Actual Study Start Date: Mar 27, 2020
• Actual Primary Completion Date: May 2, 2020
• Actual Study Completion Date: May 2, 2020

Arms and Interventions

Arm	Intervention/Treatment
CASE 59 COVID-19 POSITIVE PRISONERS WHO UNDERWENT TREATMENT AT THE COVID-19 CARE FACILITY AT CAMP JAIL.	Other: COVID-19 FACILITY; A COVID-19 facility was setup within the Prison. All positive prisoners were managed in the facility. If further intervention was required they were to be shifted to Services Hospital , Lahore.

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcome Measures

1. Recovery [30 days]

   Confirmed by double negative PCR results of specimen obtained via nasopharyngeal swabs

2. Mortality [30 days]

   Death of any of the patients who had tested positive at the Camp Jail

3. ICU admission [30 days]

   Any patient requiring admission to intensive care unit due to developing symptoms

Eligibility Criteria

Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: N/A and Older
• Sexes Eligible for Study: All
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Inclusion Criteria:

• All COVID-19 positive prisoners within the Camp Jail

Exclusion Criteria:

• Any patient being shifted to any other facility (except designated)

Contacts and Locations

Locations

	Site	City	State	Country	Postal Code
1	Camp Jail / COVID-19 CARE FACILITY/ SIMS	Lahore		Pakistan

Sponsors and Collaborators

• Services Institute of Medical Sciences, Pakistan

Investigators

None specified.

Study Documents (Full-Text)

None provided.

More Information

Publications

None provided.

• Responsible Party: Usman Ismat Butt, Assistant Professor, Services Institute of Medical Sciences, Pakistan
• ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT04404179
• Other Study ID Numbers: CovJ
• First Posted: May 27, 2020
• Last Update Posted: May 29, 2020
• Last Verified: May 1, 2020

• Individual Participant Data (IPD) Sharing Statement: No
• Plan to Share IPD: No
• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated Drug Product: No
• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated Device Product: No
• Keywords provided by Usman Ismat Butt, Assistant Professor, Services Institute of Medical Sciences, Pakistan: COVID-19; Prison; Pakistan
• Additional relevant MeSH terms: COVID-19

Study Results

No Results Posted as of May 29, 2020