App launched to monitor Covid patients at home by Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar
- Tuesday | 18th May, 2021
App launched to monitor Covid patients at home by Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar
- | Tuesday | 18th May, 2021
The CM said the app installed on the tablets assigned to health workers/ANM in the state would start providing information on the health status of home-isolated patients in their areas. This would also help the government to reach these patients and provide adequate medical services in time.
CM Nitish Kumar on Monday launched ‘HIT Covid App’ to ensure regular monitoring and tracking of those Covid-19 patients, who are in home isolation across the state. ‘HIT’ stands for home isolation tracking.
“The app will help the health workers in regular monitoring of home-isolated patients. The health workers will visit the patients at home every day and feed data in the app after measuring their temperature and oxygen level. These data will be monitored at the district level. If the oxygen level is below 94, the patient will be shifted to the nearby dedicated Covid health centre for proper treatment,” Nitish said.
The CM said the app installed on the tablets assigned to health workers/ANM in the state would start providing information on the health status of home-isolated patients in their areas. This would also help the government to reach these patients and provide adequate medical services in time. This would also create a database through an easy and user-friendly process for helping the health department to monitor the health status of those patients.
Secretary, department of information technology (DIT), Santosh Kumar Mall said the app was developed by the Bihar State Electronic Development Corporation (BELTRON) under the guidance of the department of health and the DIT to help the health workers in fight against Covid-19. The main aim of this app is to provide better facilities and proper monitoring of the home-isolated patients in the state.
“The app was used on pilot basis in Supaul, Aurangabad, Bhagalpur, Gopalganj and Nalanda districts for the last five days. On the very first day of the trial, a patient with an oxygen level at 76 was located in Kishanpur block of Supaul. He was immediately shifted to a hospital by the district administration,” Mall said.
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