Guidelines for "Green" COVID-19 patients looking after themselves at home

[snoop1130]

 

BANGKOK (NNT) - According to Thailand’s Public Health Ministry on Monday, asymptomatic COVID-19 cases in Bangkok, Nakhon Pathom, Pathum Thani, Nonthaburi, Samut Prakan and Samut Sakhon will enter a “Home Isolation” program, under remote supervision by medical personnel as a direct result of the hospital bed shortage in and around the capital.

 

Home isolation is for people under 60 years old who test positive for the coronavirus but are asymptomatic, generally in good health, live alone or with no more than one person, are not obese or suffering from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), chronic kidney disease (CKD), heart and blood vessel diseases, cerebrovascular disease or stroke, serious diabetes or other conditions that doctors may deem to be serious.

 

Recommendations during home isolation include no home visits, avoiding physical proximity with elderly people and children, with at least two metres distance being observed, staying in separate rooms from others, refraining from sharing objects and eating with others, opening the windows, wearing masks at all times when leaving the room, washing hands when physical contact and contact with common objects cannot be avoided, separating laundry from others and using a separate toilet. If this is not possible, the patient should be the last one to use the toilet.

 

Asymptomatic cases are also required to take their temperature and observe their condition daily. If they begin to develop symptoms that prevent them from undertaking their daily routine, immediate contact with the hospital that holds their medical records is recommended.

 

Deputy Health Minister Satit Pitutacha said today that he has discussed, with the private sector, the development of technologies that can ensure effective home isolation, including tracking, reminder notifications and oxygen and temperature reports.

 

The National Health Security Office (NHSO) will pay 1,000 baht a day per head, to cover three meals a day, to be delivered by the patient’s supervising hospital, and another 1,100 baht a day per head for medical equipment.

Those who do not exhibit any symptoms will be given fah talai jone (Andrographis Paniculata) extract and those beginning to develop symptoms will be prescribed Favipiravir.

 

-- © Copyright NNT 2021-06-29

 

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[ThailandRyan]

And it begins, but with serious limitations on who can self isolate it appears.

[GeorgeCross]

sounds like another plan about to be ruined by bureaucracy

 

 

[stubuzz]

4 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

The National Health Security Office (NHSO) will pay 1,000 baht a day per head, to cover three meals a day, to be delivered by the patient’s supervising hospital, and another 1,100 baht a day per head for medical equipment.

That seems a bit high.

 

[Danderman123]

There seems to be a gap between those who dream up these plans, and those who implement them.

 

 

[BritManToo]

10 hours ago, stubuzz said:

That seems a bit high.

 

900bht admin fee, 100bht for the food.

Plus another 1,100bht in the medical pocket.

Edited June 30, 2021 by BritManToo

[nkg]

But farangs who test positive in the so-called "Phuket Sandbox" have to spend their own money to stay in a Thai hospital for 15 days. I see ????

 

 

[connda]

15 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

Home isolation is for people under 60 years old who test positive for the coronavirus but are asymptomatic,

Asymptomatic people over 60 years old will be placed in confined "hospitals" with developing symptomatic cases which in turn will infect those not showing symptoms.  For very elderly this could be a death sentence.  They have this twisted.  The most vulnerable should be placed in home isolation and not moved unless they become symptomatic.
Sounds more like death sentence than public health.

[Caldera]

It's that "staying in separate rooms from others" requirement that will disqualify many if not most ordinary Thai residents of Bangkok.

[Justgrazing]

18 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

, the patient should be the last one to use the toilet

 

But what if you had a full house curry the night before .. bowel evacuation cannot be delayed waiting in a queue .. potential for toilet disaster's here methinks ..