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Government Issues New Guidelines To Discharge COVID-19 Patients
By: Tupaki Desk | 10 May 2020 2:32 PM GMT
The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has come up with some revised guidelines for discharging patients from healthcare facilities. Earlier, the patients were discharged if they found negative for couple times after being treated. But now they revised the guidelines on 3 tier COVID-19 facilities in India.
As per the guidelines, the COVID-19 patients are divided into three categories from mild to severe and they will be discharged accordingly.
For all three category cases, patients are required to stay under isolation for at least seven days even after discharge.
In mild cases, the patient can be discharged after 10 days, if they did not have any fever for 3 days. In the case of Moderate cases, they are admitted to DCHC (Oxygen beds). If the fever is resolved in three days, they will be discharged after 10 days of the symptom onset after monitoring that breathlessness is resolved. If the fever is not resolved within 3 days, they will be discharged only after the clinical symptoms are resolved.
In the case of severe cases, the patient will be tested for RT-PCR and will be discharged only after testing negative for it.
As per the guidelines, the COVID-19 patients are divided into three categories from mild to severe and they will be discharged accordingly.
For all three category cases, patients are required to stay under isolation for at least seven days even after discharge.
In mild cases, the patient can be discharged after 10 days, if they did not have any fever for 3 days. In the case of Moderate cases, they are admitted to DCHC (Oxygen beds). If the fever is resolved in three days, they will be discharged after 10 days of the symptom onset after monitoring that breathlessness is resolved. If the fever is not resolved within 3 days, they will be discharged only after the clinical symptoms are resolved.
In the case of severe cases, the patient will be tested for RT-PCR and will be discharged only after testing negative for it.
