The Ghaziabad district administration will establish dedicated severe acute respiratory illness (SARI) clinics to provide timely treatment to suspected Covid-19 patients in the district. Only those with respiratory problems or other Covid-19 symptoms would be treated at the clinics.
SARI clinics would conduct screening of people with coronavirus symptoms through cartridge based nucleic acid amplification test (Representative photo: PTI)
The Ghaziabad administration will set up dedicated severe acute respiratory illness (SARI) clinics to provide timely treatment to suspected Covid-19 patients in the district, an official said on Thursday.
Ghaziabad District Magistrate Ajay Shankar Pandey has instructed Chief Medical Officer (CMO) N K Gupta to establish the clinics as per the guidelines of the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR).
Stressing that only those with respiratory problems or other Covid-19 symptoms would be treated at the clinics, Pandey said a dedicated helpline will be launched soon to ensure timely treatment is provided to such people.
SARI clinics would conduct screening of people with coronavirus symptoms through cartridge-based nucleic acid amplification test (CBNAAT) and every bed would be equipped with an oxygen cylinder and oximeter to measure oxygen saturation, Gupta said.
After getting a report of the patient through CBNAAT, the sample would be sent for testing to check the Reverse Transcription Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR). In case the patient has been detected Covid-19 positive, medicines would be provided to him as per protocol.
The main aim of establishing SARI clinics would be to identify Covid-19 patients who are suffering from breathlessness within one or two hours instead of 24 to 48 hours. Pulse oximeter would test the oxygen saturation in ‘happy’ hypoxia or silent pneumonia patients, he said. Thereafter, the patients would be shifted to L1, L2 or L3 COVID-19 hospitals for treatment, Gupta added.
