The Health and Family Welfare Department of Orissa on July 17, 2020 issues guidelines for Medical Officers and Doctors doing private practice during Covid-19 pandemic. These guidelines are to be strictly adhered by the Medical Practioners who are pursuing professional practice in their own consultation chamber or in private set up like nursing homes, poly clinics, private clinics etc.
The detail guidelines are as follows:-
• All Nursing Home, Poly clinic, Clinic, Consulting chambers must have separate fever clinic and isolation facilities.
• There must be provision of hand washing facilities, availabilities of hand sanitizer and mask.
• All equipment like BP Instruments, Stethoscope, Thermometers and any other touch points must be sterilized/ disinfected after every single use.
• Each establishment shall have a reception facility to guide the patients of fever, SARI/ILI and the person from hotspot areas, containment areas to the designated OPD of the nearest Government and Private Covid Hospitals.
• It will be the duty of the practitioner that to ensure that anybody entering the facilities must use mask and have washed their hand or using sanitizer.
• The practitioner must ensure social distancing and IPC protocol is followed scrupulously in its premises.
• Display of IEC material on infection control practices with Do's and Don'ts must be displayed in the premises.
• It is mandatory to notify SARI/ILI cases to district surveillance unit or local bodies.
• They have to maintain a register of patients attending the clinic.
[Order no- 16989/H.HFW-MSII-AESTT-0008-2020]
