Thai Health Agencies Issue Criteria for COVID-19 Patients in Home or Community Isolation

[snoop1130]

 

BANGKOK (NNT) - The Department of Medical Services (DMS) and National Health Security Office (NHSO) have unveiled criteria for COVID-19 patients with mild symptoms being cared for in home or community isolation.

 

DMS Director-General Dr Somsak Akkasilp said the patients must not be older than 60 to meet its criteria. Doctors will follow up patients’ condition and provide guidelines for blood oxygen level testing, via a telemedicine system. They will also deliver thermometers, favipiravir and green chiretta, to help ease symptoms, and three meals a day.

 

For home isolation, patients must not be critical or vulnerable, their homes must be spacious enough to allow distancing, patients are supposed to stay indoors to prevent transmission and hospitals must assign doctors to examine their symptoms via video call.

 

For community isolation, local leaders have been told to monitor the situation. Patients must not be critical and must be able to breathe by themselves. The BMA has cooperated with the DMS, medical schools, the public sector and civil society to provide zones as community isolation areas, to accommodate at least 200 mild COVID-19 patients as they wait for beds.

 

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[mfd101]

16 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

patients are supposed to stay indoors to prevent transmission

Good luck with that!

[Cake Monster]

Is Community Isolation the same as a Tent under a Motorway Bridge ?