Bengaluru: The Karnataka government on Saturday decided not to allow home isolation of COVID patients in villages areas and slums in urban regions, and to make necessary arrangements to ensure they get admitted mandatorily in Covid Care Centres (CCCs).
“This is to ensure that they get admitted mandatorily at COVID Care Centres (CCCs),” Deputy Chief Minister and State Covid Task Force Chairman Dr CN Ashwath Narayan told reporters after the task force meeting, which was also attended by Health Minister Dr K Sudhakar and senior officials.
In rural areas, CCCs will be set up at primary health centres and deputy commissioners will be entrusted with the responsibility of making arrangements for isolation and treatment also at places like hostels, he said. Rapid Antigen Test (RAT) will be conducted at the doorsteps of people in hotspots, he added.
The task force decided that 100 ICU beds will be made available in every district hospital; 100 oxygenated beds, including 25 ICU beds, at taluk hospitals and 10 oxygenated beds at PHCs. The task force took a decision to purchase 1,000 oxygen utility regulatory devices developed by the Defence Research and Development Organisation.
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