New Delhi: Portea Medical, home healthcare company, has said that it will provide home healthcare to Coronavirus positive patients in the Delhi NCR region. Portea has joined hands with the Delhi Government for the same, the company said. This will help reduce the healthcare burden and free up hospital beds and ICUs for those who need it the most, the company said.
“This partnership is an opportunity for us to utilise this specialisation and help the government manage the crisis with technology as an enabler. Since the entire process is being managed via remote monitoring, the risk of infection for frontline healthcare workers will also be reduced significantly. We believe that this is the right time to integrate home healthcare and telemedicine as core elements of our national healthcare strategy,” Meena Ganesh, MD, and CEO, Portea Medical.
Understanding how more than 80 per cent of COVID-19 positive patients are asymptomatic or have mild symptoms and do not require hospital care, Portea Medical has been helping the state in screening patients for home isolation. These patients are monitored remotely through a comprehensive tracking system involving government doctors and experts from Portea for the entire mandated isolation period of 17 days.
About 5500 COVID-19 patients have been onboarded for home isolation and 160 transferred to hospitals. There are over 3000 doctor teleconsultations for patients under home isolation and the number of patients discharged from isolation after getting disease-free stands at 1900. The patients do not have to pay any fee for the service.
