Health Ministry issues guidelines for medical practitioners

The Health Ministry on Tuesday released guidelines for all government and private hospitals in the light of the novel coronavirus outbreak. These guidelines make it mandatory for all hospitals and medical officers in government health institutions and registered medical practitioners, including AYUSH practitioners to notify any person with suspected symptoms of the infection to the concerned district surveillance unit.

In addition, medical practitioners have also been instructed to inform the government about people in their knowledge who have recent travel history to affected countries. This has to be done by means of self-declaration forms.

Practitioners have further been asked to look out for any such person with travel history in the last 14 days. Any such person must be isolated in the hospital and will accordingly be tested for Covid-19 as per the protocol.