Kenya plans to discharge nearly all asymptomatic Covid-19 patients to free-up space in congested hospitals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The government has released guidelines for home-based care for discharged patients, which include at least 10 days of isolation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cDue to our rising number of Covid-19 cases, it is increasingly becoming difficult and untenable to isolate all patients in our hospitals for management and care,\u201d health ministry official Rashid Aman told a media briefing on Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Patients with no underlying health conditions and have suitable space at home are also eligible for discharge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cFor those in informal settlements we would need to put them in institutions in the community that meet the requirements,\u201d Dr Aman added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Community healthcare workers will be involved in the daily assessment of the patients at home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The east African nation has confirmed 3,094 coronavirus cases so far.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Kenya plans to discharge nearly all asymptomatic Covid-19 patients to free-up space in congested hospitals. The government has released guidelines for home-based care for discharged patients, which include at least 10 days of isolation. \u201cDue to our rising number of Covid-19 cases, it is increasingly becoming difficult and untenable to isolate all patients in our […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15378,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"yoast_head":"\n