Guidelines for Establishing Multidisciplinary Teams for the Treatment of COVID-19

The Kyrgyz Republic’s health care system struggled to cope with high COVID-19 caseloads in 2020, due in part to insufficient numbers of infectious disease specialists, pulmonologists, and respiratory therapists. With support from the LHSS Project, the Ministry of Health created and trained multidisciplinary teams consisting of clinicians from various medical specialties to provide care to COVID-19 patients. This report describes the multidisciplinary team approach, and presents guidelines for establishing, training, and monitoring and evaluating multidisciplinary teams.