First domiciliary Covid care centre at Thiruvananthapuram's Ambalathara

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The district administration has declared Cordova Public School, Ambalathara, as the first domiciliary Covid-care centre (DCC) in the district. DCC will provide isolation facilities for asymptomatic Covid-19 patients who do not have adequate isolation facilities at home. Food for the inmates at DCC will be provided by Thiruvananthapuram municipal corporation.
At present, there are 23 first-line treatment centres, 7 secondary- treatment centres and one Covid hospital in health services.District collector Navjot Khosa said from the initial stages where a vast number of positive cases were managed at first-line treatment centres, the district has evolved to a scenario where positive home-isolation cases occupy a major fraction. The concept of DCC or micro first-line treatment centres has evolved to deal with positive cases that are not symptomatic and need only isolation.
District administration also declared on Tuesday that food bill of patients referred to private hospitals from government hospitals shall be met from state disaster response fund. Such patients will be eligible to get Rs 160 per person per day. Those patients who are unable to pay food expenses in respective private hospitals can opt for availing food as per the menu and the cost shall be met from SDRF, read an order issued by district collector on Tuesday. The state mission director of National health mission had directed the district administration to meet the food expense incurred by government-referred patients in private Covid hospitals in public interest from SDRF.
At present, there are 497 beds in 11 private hospitals for Covid-19 treatment in the district. It was reported that the food given to the patients admitted in such beds in private hospitals are not covered by the rates fixed by the government. Meanwhile, active cases dropped further in the district as 413 positive cases were reported on Tuesday. As many as 654 persons recovered from infection. A total of 8,857 persons are under treatment in the district.