Gurugram district administration has allowed upscale condominiums, gated housing societies, and NGOs to set up small Covid care facilities
Amid a spike in Covid-19 circumstances in Gurugram, the district administration has allowed upscale condominiums, gated housing societies, and NGOs to set up small Covid care facilities whereas utilizing their very own sources.
Deputy Commissioner Yash Garg, mentioned in his order: “Requests have been received from gated housing societies to set up small Covid-19 care facilities run by the Resident Welfare Associations (RWAs), housing societies and NGOs using their own resources.”
“This will help reduce the burden on existing facilities for managing pre-symptomatic, asymptomatic, and very mild cases of Covid living in that particular society, and that such an order would be extremely crucial to check the exponential increase in Covid cases,” Garg mentioned.
However, Covid care facilities is “not meant for critically sick aged sufferers, youngsters lower than 10 years of age, pregnant or lactating girls, and sufferers with co-morbidities, mentioned the order.
The order additionally directed that the Covid facilities observe “strict infection prevention and control practices” by preserving confirmed and suspected circumstances in separate partitioned areas with “no intermixing” and “separate toilets”.
The order additional mentioned that the power will even want to be linked to the surveillance crew (IDSP) and an ambulance supplier, and phone numbers of the RWAs, NGOs, docs ought to be displayed prominently.
The order added that a health care provider residing within the gated complicated or supplied by the NGO “facilitate daily medical examination” of the sufferers, and a caregiver even be recognized to take care of sufferers and hold information.
Both the physician and caregiver will bear coaching organized by the Chief Medical Officer on Covid administration and an infection, prevention, and management practices.
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