MUMBAI: Following central pointers, the state authorities has directed that every one asymptomatic optimistic sufferers going to personal hospitals ought to be stamped and despatched away for house quarantine after correct counselling. The transfer is aimed toward decongesting care centres for the reason that state’s case load is simply two wanting 10,500. However the BMC, which is catering to 70% of the state’s Covid-19 sufferers, together with these in Mumbai and its prolonged suburbs, says it’s unlikely to implement the order instantly. Further municipal commissioner Suresh Kakani stated town’s distinctive demographic and socio-economic challenges, like slum clusters, could not permit the BMC to undertake such a coverage as but, although it’s being studied regionally.
Nonetheless, adopting a special method for asymptomatic sufferers going to authorities hospitals, chief secretary Ajoy Mehta in his notification issued on Thursday (efficient from Could 2), stated they need to be shifted to Covid Care Centres (CCCs), and never granted admission in devoted Covid hospitals, earmarked for severe instances. “Those to be shifted to CCCs are those that reside in slums or congested dwelling areas, and therefore for whom house quarantine wouldn’t work with out placing others in danger,” stated an official.
On traces of central pointers, the BMC has arrange a three-tier care system for Covid sufferers, starting with devoted Covid hospitals on the high of the hospital pyramid, adopted by Devoted Covid Well being Centres (DCHCs) and Covid Care Centres (CCCs) on the backside. The rules say that as a affected person recovers in a DCHC, he might be moved to any of the CCCs, which in flip are divided into two varieties — CCC1, that are centres positioned in motels, lodges, halls, newly constructed buildings and don’t have round the clock medical care, and CCC2s, that are authorities centres with docs and nursing workers current around the clock. There are 242 CCC1 services, with a capability for over 17,000 sufferers, and 84 CCC2 centres with a capability for over 14,000. As of Wednesday, 6,770 sufferers have been in CCC1 and 1,474 in CCC2 services.
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