Control room team keeps tabs on 111 in home isolation

Noida: The district has seen 769 Covid patients in home isolation since July 26 when it started in Gautam Budh Nagar. Of them, 111 are currently active and in home isolation. Ten patients were shifted to hospitals since they needed advanced care and so far, 648 people have recovered.
A team of trained operators and 10 doctors has been monitoring those at home through 24x7 tele-consultations twice daily. Each patient is being tracked for at least 10 days from the Home Isolation Cell (HIC) under the HCL-managed Integrated Covid Command Control Room in Sector 59.
A patient’s health parameters, like oxygen saturation level and temperature, are noted regularly. If a person needs hospitalisation, then, assistance is provided by the call centre.
Patients who are allowed home isolation are identified by rapid response teams managed by the district surveillance department from testing camps in the district and community health centres in rural areas and Covid hospitals. Such patients are placed in home isolation after a 24 to 48-hour observation period in the hospital. A team of operators under 10 doctors and one technical expert monitor the patients twice a day for10 days and a patient’s complaints, like fever, cough and oxygen saturation level are checked. “The HIC monitors all patients who are asymptomatic with no comorbidities and have met the home isolation conditions. The monitoring is done through tele-consultation by a team of trained operators and doctors. A detailed database is prepared for all patients daily both, in hard and soft copies,” said Dr Lalit Kumar, the nodal officer supervising the home isolation cell.
“Patients are tracked through the UP Covid-19 App, call centre/help desk daily and queries are handled through the toll-free number 18004192211,” said Prateek Gupta a technical expert volunteer at the control room.