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Prepare for effective home isolation, quarantine of COVID-19 patients, Div Com to DCs 7/29/2020 11:46:09 PM Early Times Report Srinagar, Jul 29: Divisional Commissioner Kashmir, Pandurang K Pole on Wednesday asked Deputy Commissioners (DCs) and health officers to gear for effective home isolation of asymptomatic patients and home quarantine of their contacts in the valley. Pole on Wednesday chaired a weekly Covid-19 review meeting with all Deputy Commissioners, Health Officers and other concerned, an official spokesperson said. He said that home isolation protocol shall throw new challenges to the administration and instructed concerned to put in place all the necessary mechanism to ensure effective treatment to the patients to be put in home isolation. The Divisional Commissioner emphasized on proper monitoring of patients to be home isolated, their regular thermal checkups and sensitisation on following the Covid-19 protocol religiously. He directed concerned to place notices outside the patients home for information. The DCs were directed to gear up and strengthen the control rooms besides fill gaps of required infrastructure and manpower for smooth and prompt response to the patients. The Div Com said that COVID-19 awareness kits shall be provided to the Panchayat who shall help in generating Covid protocol awareness among the villagers. Directions were given on creating separate testing facility for security forces with separate quota to unburden the daily civilian load. Meanwhile, the Div Com instructed concerned to ensure timely report clearance of pending samples at all testing labs. He also passed directions on strengthening contact tracing to ensure timely isolation or quarantine to reduce mortality. The Div Com asked DCs to raise the number of sample collection and their testing accordingly. He also took stock of availability of covid medicines, oxygen cylinders, availability of beds and other related facilities in all districts. Stressing on coordinated efforts by the concerned, the Div Com called for decongestion of 4 tertiary care hospitals in Srinagar and reverse referral of patients to districts for effective containment of Covid-19 infection.   Share This News with Your Friends on Social Network     Comment on this Story

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