Bengaluru: Out-of-hospital consumer healthcare company, Portea Medical, informed that they have provided home isolation services to 4,00,308 COVID positive patients pan India since May 2020 and it has reduced the rate of hospitalization to about three percent. Nearly 45 percent of the patients were above 60 years and with co-morbidities and were classified as high-risk.
The home healthcare company informed that they had introduced home care solutions like oxygen therapy for COVID patients, ICU care, chemotherapy for cancer patients. Also provided isolation and treatment centers to counter the lack of hospital beds apart from introducing new point of care based remote monitoring of health vitals of patients, especially elders. These isolation centers had oxygen therapy beds with 24×7 doctors and nurses available at site. About 75 percent of the COVID home isolation patients were between 20-59 years while 17 percent belonged to the above 60 age group and eight percent were below 20 years of age. Overall, 34 percent of the patients presented different co-morbidities – hypertension, diabetes, obesity, long term steroid therapy, thyroid disorder among others.
Speaking about this, Meena Ganesh, MD, Co-Founder and Chairperson, Portea Medical, said, “Our home isolation services ensured that patients who could be managed at home get adequate support and care. This has not only led to reduced rates of hospitalization but also ensured that the hospital beds are reserved for those who need it the most. We are ramping up our resources in the wake of the Omicron threat.”
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