In a major decision, the State Government on Friday allowed treatment of Covid-19 patients at private hospitals.
“It is observed that the private hospitals are treating the non-Covid cases; but when they find such patients to be Covid-19 positive during the process of treatment, they immediately request the Government machinery to shift the case to a Covid facility set up by the Government. It eventually caused a large surge of patients in such Covid facilities,” the Health Department said in a notification.
The Government formulated guidelines for the treatment of Covid-19 patients at private hospitals.
The guidelines included sending of all asymptomatic or mild cases to institutional quarantine/home isolation or any paid CCC run by the private hospital. Interested private hospitals shall designate a minimum of 10% of all beds for Covid patients with an option to convert the entire hospital as a Covid Hospital.