Karnataka government issues new rule before discharging covid-19 patient

In a new notice issued by the Karnataka Government, a COVID-19 patient can be released following 10 days of onset of symptoms only after the below mentioned measures are in concordance:

• Absence of fever and side effects for most recent 3 days before discharge
• keeps up saturation over 95 percent for most recent 4 days without oxygen support,
• Disappearance of shortness of breath
• Disappearance of clinical signs
• one RT-PCR test will be completed 3 days in the wake of being symptom free and the patient must be released if the report is negative.

In the event the individual is positive, the RT-PCR test will be rehashed following 72 hours. the patient is asymptomatic, he will be released after RT-PCR test is performed 7 days once again after the main test is seen as negative.

In the prior strategy, there must be two successive negative tests 14 days after the primary test turned positive for the patient, so as to discharge them without hassles. As of late, GOI gave rules that no test is required before release if the individual doesn’t exhibit side effects for 3 days. In any case, the state has not followed this and had ordered a test before release.

Earlier, all patients were confined to a minimum of 14 days in hospital. Also, a suspicious patient had to undergo two tests in a day before discharge.

Department of Health and Family Welfare officials assert that the new discharge policy was implemented to guarantee that there are ample facilities in hospitals to admit patients who test positive. “Even after one tests negative, he/she will have to undergo home quarantine and we will issue strict orders to patients,” an official said.