The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has issued some revised guidelines for discharging COVID-19 patients.
The notification issued on May 08, 2020 said that there are mainly three categories (from mild to severe) in which the government has divided all Coronavirus patients and they will be discharged accordingly. For all cases, patients are required to stay under isolation for at least seven days even after discharge.
- Mild/very mild/pre-symptomatic cases: According to the government notification, patients who are in a COVID Care Facility will be put under a regular temperature and pulse oximetry monitoring. The patient can be discharged after 10 days (considering from the day symptoms appeared) if they did not have any fever for 3 days. It is to note that before the discharge, COVID-19 test (RT-PCR) will not be performed. The government further informed that before the discharge, if patients witness any dip in oxygen saturation (below 95 per cent), they will be moved to a Dedicated COVID Health Centre (DCHC).
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