'Mix-up' in CCCs frustrates new, old patients
Source: Chronicle News Service
Imphal, May 22 2021:
Complaints have been raised over keeping together newly admitted Covid positive patients with old inmates waiting to recover from the virus at the Covid Care Centres (CCCs) .
Although the patients admitted to CCCs in Imphal are being monitored closely by doctors, many have voiced their concerns over newly admitted patients being allowed to mix with patients nearing their discharge date.
Speaking to The People's Chronicle, some patients at the CCCs conveyed that those who have been staying at the Centre for over 10 days are made to stay with patients who are newly admitted to the centre, thereby causing mental stress.
This, in no way, is discriminatory to the new entrants but the presence of all of them in one common room is bringing the morale down of both the old and new entrants.
As per doctor's advice, a patient staying at the centre for 10 days may return home if/she shows no signs of any symptoms.
Amid this, if a patient, whose recovery period is almost over, is made to share a common living space with a new entrant, he/she has second doubts about his/her health.
Thus, it would be best if the government arranges separate accommodations for both the old and new entrants admitted to the CCCs.
Meanwhile, a patient who has completed 10 days without showing any symptoms is allowed to go home on the 11th day.
However, as his/her family will still have some suspicions, he/she should be tested beforehand at the centre.
So far, many patients, after returning home, stay in isolation for 7 days and the family contacts a private testing centre for testing his status.
Opening a testing centre at the CCCs would help the patients, the families and the people in general to have peace of mind, the patients said.