Table 4.

Lessons and recommendations.

Lessons	Recommendations
The practice of psychiatry is dynamic, therefore novel innovations were actuated and implemented to enhance service delivery.	The implementation of telepsychiatry and enabling mechanisms which will ensure its seamless utilization globally.
The need for proactive consultation-liaison teams and the importance of the “Liaison” component in “Consultation-Liaison” units.	The constant need to educate other non-psychiatrist practitioners on the management of delirium and other psychiatric conditions co-existing with COVID-19 and other medical or surgical conditions. To the extent possible, earmark wards for patients with acute mental illness presentations co-existing with other medical conditions.
Especially in the Low-and-Middle-Income Countries (LMIC), community health workers and trained volunteers are pivotal in reducing the existing treatment gap even in periods of infectious disease outbreaks.	The promotion and empowerment of community-based mental health services. Improved trainings of community health workers and trained volunteers through linkage, enhancement or mixed models.
The management of psychiatric conditions coexisting with and occurring during infectious disease outbreaks may become a common occurrence. Consequently, countries should demonstrate increasing levels of preparedness for the present and subsequent outbreaks.	There is a dire need to develop protocols and guidelines for the management of psychiatric conditions during infectious disease outbreaks, both locally and globally.