{"id":107229,"date":"2021-05-17T16:17:25","date_gmt":"2021-05-17T10:47:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=107229"},"modified":"2021-05-18T11:33:05","modified_gmt":"2021-05-18T06:03:05","slug":"centre-releases-covid-19-guidelines-for-rural-areas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/centre-releases-covid-19-guidelines-for-rural-areas\/","title":{"rendered":"Centre releases &#8220;Covid-19 guidelines for rural areas&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><\/h5>\n<h5><strong>What is the News?<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>The Central Government has released new guidelines in the wake of the spread of coronavirus disease (Covid-19) in rural areas.<\/p>\n<h5><strong>About the Covid-19 guidelines for rural areas:<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Three Tier Structure: <\/strong>The guidelines recommend a three-tier structure to manage Covid-19 pandemic in rural areas:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Firstly<\/strong>, to establish 30-bed Covid Care Centres(CCCs) in villages to treat mild cases.\n<ul>\n<li>Transforming community halls and panchayat buildings into CCCs. These centres should also be equipped with at least<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"> two oxygen cylinders<\/span>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Secondly<\/strong>, Primary Health Centres (PHCs), Community Health Centres (CHCs) and Sub-district Hospitals shall handle moderate cases of the Covid-19 cases. Persons having an oxygen saturation level below 94 will be treated here.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Thirdly<\/strong>, district hospitals or private hospitals should manage severe cases with ambulances available for the rapid transport of patients.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><strong>Other Key Covid-19 guidelines for rural areas:<\/strong><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Testing<\/strong>: Community Health Officers(CHOs) should be trained in performing Rapid Antigen Testing(RAT). These RAT kits should be provided at all public health facilities including Sub-centres (SCs) and PHCs.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Symptomatic Cases:<\/strong> The symptomatic cases can be treated at the village level after teleconsultation with the CHO. Further, the cases with comorbidity or low oxygen saturation will be sent to higher centres.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Surveillance: <\/strong>In every village, active surveillance should be done for influenza-like illness. This will periodically be held by ASHA workers. The Village Health Sanitation and Nutrition Committee(VHSNC) will help ASHA workers in this regard.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Ayush Doctors: <\/strong>Qualified AYUSH doctors, final year AYUSH students or final year B.Sc nurses may be considered to run the Covid Care Centres(CCCs).<\/li>\n<li><strong>Contract Tracing: <\/strong>The guidelines also focused on the need for contact tracing at every level.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Covid kit<\/strong>: Each Covid-19 household would get a \u201chome isolation kit\u201d with paracetamol, ivermectin, multivitamin tablets. The kit will also have provisions for periodic measurements of patients\u2019 oxygen level and fever.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/india\/oxygen-beds-rural-covid-testing-coronavirus-cases-7317953\/\"><strong>Indian Express<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the News? The Central Government has released new guidelines in the wake of the spread of coronavirus disease (Covid-19) in rural areas. About the Covid-19 guidelines for rural areas: \u00a0Three Tier Structure: The guidelines recommend a three-tier structure to manage Covid-19 pandemic in rural areas: Firstly, to establish 30-bed Covid Care Centres(CCCs) in&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/centre-releases-covid-19-guidelines-for-rural-areas\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Centre releases &#8220;Covid-19 guidelines for rural areas&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,1351,1310,7965,9],"tags":[1289],"class_list":["post-107229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-daily-news","category-daily-news-updates","category-miscellaneous-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-soc_0","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704900660},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107229\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}