The Ministry of Health & Family Welfare on 17th July 2020 has issued guidelines for gated residential complexes desirous of setting up small COVID care facility or a community-based isolation facility by resident welfare associations/residential societies/Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs).
The Covid Care Facility will be set up using the resources of RWAs/Residential Societies/NGOs. It will be a dedicated health facility for management of suspect/asymptomatic/presymptomatic or very mild cases of COVID-19, residing in that particular residential facility and this facility is not meant for elderly patients, children less than 10 years of age, pregnant or lactating women, and patients with co-morbidities (diabetes, hypertension, heart disease, kidney disease, chronic respiratory disease, cancer and other immune-compromised states) who shall be admitted to a proper COVID Care facility.
The COVID Care facility will follow strict infection prevention and control practices and confirmed and suspect cases shall be kept in separate partitioned areas and no intermixing shall be allowed. There shall be separate toilets for both categories.
The facility shall have separate entry and exit points and the entrance should have mandatory hand hygiene arrangements and thermal screening provisions for caregivers. The beds shall be placed at least one meter (3 feet) from one another.
The facility shall be regularly inspected by the Rapid Response Team (RRT) to provide guidance to the RWA/residential society concerned.
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