AllMS Delhi issues guidelines for Covid-19 suspected and positive patients as city registers first JN.1 variant case
Coronavirus cases across the country.
The director of AIIMS Delhi convened a meeting with all department heads on Wednesday to discuss contingency measures for COVID-19. During the meeting, topics such as the policy on COVID-19 testing, the allocation of specific areas for positive patients, and protocols for their hospitalization were thoroughly addressed.
According to the management's COVID-19 testing policy, individuals exhibiting symptoms consistent with Severe Acute Respiratory Infection (SARI), as defined by the World Health Organization (WHO), will undergo testing.
These symptoms encompass acute respiratory infection, persistent fever, or a fever equal to or exceeding 38°C, along with cough, and an onset within the last 10 days.
The office memorandum was issued after the meeting.
It further asked all the departments at the institution to make provisions in their respective designated wards to manage in-patients who have tested positive for COVID-19.
«12 beds in the C6 ward will be earmarked for hospitalization of seriously ill COVID-19 patients,» the memorandum said.
It also said that a screening OPD in the Emergency Department will screen patients for COVID-like symptoms and triage them same based on the medical requirements.
«Rooms no 1 to 12 in the new private ward are to be earmarked for hospitalization of COVID-19 positive EHS beneficiaries,» it added.
«Engineering works in the New Blocks, Masjid Moth Campus--The ESD is required to install UVGA filters and HEPA filters in all the new blocks situated in the Masjid Moth Campus at the earliest,» it said further.
Delhi has also reported its first case of the COVID-19 sub-variant JN.1.
As per PTI sources reveal that among the three samples subjected to
