Medicare packages for home isolation

Mohali, August 24

Private hospitals in the district would extend medical care to Covid-19 patients in home isolation.

Fortis Hospital and Max Healthcare have offered to extend homecare packages to coronavirus patients with mild symptoms while other hospitals are also exploring the possibility of extending this service.

Homecare would involve patients under home isolation to be monitored remotely by the concerned hospital. Patients would get to talk to doctors on video chat. Nurses and paramedics would also be available for video consultation to ensure constant monitoring. They would be provided with medicine and medical care kits that will help detect if their condition deteriorates.

The hospitals said different types of homecare packages like basic package entailing services such as daily monitoring of vitals by a trained nurse twice a day, tele-review with a doctor every third day as well as a medical kit with a thermometer and an oxygen saturation metre and an advanced more thorough ‘complete Covid care’ package were being worked out. — TNS