{"id":322673,"date":"2020-04-28T05:40:23","date_gmt":"2020-04-28T05:40:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=322673"},"modified":"2020-04-28T05:40:23","modified_gmt":"2020-04-28T05:40:23","slug":"patients-with-mild-covid-19-symptoms-allowed-home-isolation-option-health-ministry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/patients-with-mild-covid-19-symptoms-allowed-home-isolation-option-health-ministry\/","title":{"rendered":"Patients with mild COVID-19 symptoms allowed home isolation option: Health Ministry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-319632 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/virus-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"503\" height=\"487\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/02\/virus-1.jpg 503w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/02\/virus-1-300x290.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/02\/virus-1-434x420.jpg 434w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 503px) 100vw, 503px\" \/>The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has issued guidelines for home isolation of people who either have very mild\u00a0COVID-19 symptoms\u00a0or are in the pre-symptomatic phase.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Such patients with requisite self-isolation facility at their residence will now have the option for home isolation<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cThe present guidelines are in addition to guidelines on appropriate management of suspect\/confirmed case of COVID-19 issued by MoHFW on April 7. All suspected (awaiting test results) and confirmed cases of COVID-19 disease are currently being isolated and managed in a hospital setting with the intent to break the chain of transmission,\u201d the statement said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cAs per existing guidelines, during the containment phase the patients should be clinically assigned as very mild\/mild, moderate or severe and accordingly admitted to (i) COVID Care Center, (ii) Dedicated COVID Health Center or (iii) Dedicated COVID Hospital respectively. However, very mild\/presymptomatic patients having the requisite facility at his\/her residence for self-isolation will have the option for home isolation,\u201d it said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><strong><u>Eligibility for home isolation<\/u><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The person should be clinically assigned as a very mild case\/ pre-symptomatic case by the treating medical officer.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Such cases should have the requisite facility at their residence for self-isolation and also for quarantining the family contacts<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">A care giver should be available to provide care on 24 x7 basis. A communication link between the caregiver and hospital is a prerequisite for the entire duration of home isolation.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The care giver and all close contacts of such cases should take Hydroxychloroquine prophylaxis as per protocol and as prescribed by the treating medical officer.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Download Arogya Setu App on mobile (available at: https:\/\/www.mygov.in\/aarogya-setuapp\/) and it should remain active at all times (through Bluetooth and Wi-Fi)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The patient shall agree to monitor his health and regularly inform his health status to the District Surveillance Officer for further follow up by the surveillance teams.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The patient will fill in an undertaking on self-isolation and shall follow home quarantine guidelines. Such individual shall be eligible for home isolation.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Patients under home isolation will end home isolation if symptoms are clinically resolved and the surveillance medical officer certifies him\/her to be free of infection after laboratory testing, the Ministry said.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has issued guidelines for home isolation of people who either have very mild\u00a0COVID-19 symptoms\u00a0or are in the pre-symptomatic phase. Such patients with requisite self-isolation facility at their residence will now have the option for home isolation \u201cThe present guidelines are in addition to guidelines on appropriate management of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":319632,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[12750,12976],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322673"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=322673"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322673\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":322674,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322673\/revisions\/322674"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/319632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}