The Union Health Ministry on Saturday revised the national policy for the admission of coronavirus patients to dedicated COVID-19 facilities across the country. As per the revised policy, the requirement of a positive test report for the COVID-19 virus is not mandatory for the admission of the patient to a COVID health facility.
“A suspect case (of COVID-19) shall be admitted to the suspect ward of CCC, DCHC or DHC as the case may be. No patient will be refused services on any count. This includes medications such as oxygen or essential drugs even if the patient belongs to a different city”, the Health Ministry’s revised policy stated.
As per the Union Government directive to all States and UTs, hospitals under the Central government, State Governments and Union Territory administration including private hospitals (in States and Union Territories) managing COVID Patients shall ensure the following:
The Health Ministry has earlier enunciated a policy of setting up three tier health infrastructure for appropriate management of suspect/confirmed COVID-19 cases. The guidance document issued in this regard on 7th April 2020, envisages setting up of:
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