Mumbai: As Maharashtra state is struggling to fight covid-19, thanks to dearth of hospital beds, the state health department has issued guidelines allowing individuals testing positive for corona but with mild or no symptoms to be isolated at home if appropriate facilities are available at their home. Home care is becoming the next front in the battle against the coronavirus as private hospitals look to ease the burden on overwhelmed healthcare systems. Terna Speciality Hospital & Research Centre in Navi Mumbai is the first hospital who started COVID Home Isolation Care services with minimum charges for patients with mild symptoms of Coronavirus. A 14 day remote monitoring package (Rs.6500/-) home isolation care service which include Online Doctor Consultation every third day, daily Virtual Assistance & Monitoring, daily monitoring of a patient’s vital signs with a trained paramedical staff on call every day, 10 days Medicine, N95 Masks, Surgical Masks,Digital Thermometer, Pulse Oximeter. At the same time, hospitals will facilitate it if hospitalization is required.
“With this initiative we intend to lend a helping hand to the government in fighting against this immense pandemic by offering Home isolation care services for patients with mild symptoms of Covid-19. We hope this will help NMMC (Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation) to tackle the disease more efficiently, We are participating in Mass health check up drive in different location in Navi Mumbai with NMMC where we conducted more than five thousand primary health checkups.” said Santosh Sail, Head Marketing & Communications from Terna Speciality Hospital & Research centre.12 parents who are having mild symptoms have already taken this treatment from Turbhe, Jui nagar, Koparkhairane , Sanpada & Nerul.
