Covid-19: जाने भारत सरकार द्वारा जारी की गयीं नयी Home Isolation Guidelines

The home isolation guidelines for coronavirus positive cases has been revised by the Union health ministry. The fresh guidelines for home isolation now include asymptomatic positive patients in the list of mild or pre-symptomatic coronavirus infection cases. However, according to the revised guidelines, patients suffering from immune-compromised status (like HIV, transplant recipients, cancer therapy) are not eligible for home isolation. 

On the twitter handle of MOH,  fresh guidelines have been issued for home isolation; the details of which are following:- 

Which patients are eligible for home isolation?

1. The person should be clinically assigned as a very mild/pre-symptomatic/asymptomatic case by the treating medical officer.
2. Such cases should have the requisite facility at their residence for self-isolation and also for quarantining the family contacts.
3. Patients suffering from immune compromised status (HIV, Transplant recipients, Cancer therapy etc) are not eligible for home isolation.
4. The patients who are aged more than 60 years shall only be allowed home isolation after proper evaluation by the treating medical officer. The same goes with the co-morbid conditions such as Hypertension, Diabetes, Heart disease, Chronic lung/liver/ kidney disease, Cerebro-vascular disease etc 
5. A care giver should be available to provide care on 24 x7 basis and a proper communication link is a prerequisite for the entire duration of home isolation between the caregiver and hospital. 
6. The care giver and all close contacts of such cases should take Hydroxychloroquine prophylaxis as per protocol and as prescribed by the treating medical officer.
7. Download Aarogya Setu App on mobile and it should remain active at all times.
8. The patient shall agree to monitor his health and regularly inform his health status to the District Surveillance Officer, who will facilitate further follow up by the surveillance teams.
9. The patient will fill in an undertaking on self-isolation and shall follow home quarantine guidelines.  Before allowing home isolation, the treating doctor should satisfy himself. 
10. In addition to the guidelines on home-quarantine, the required instructions for the care giver and the patient as in Annexure II shall be also followed.