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Covid patients to care centres closest to their homes

18 May 2021

The Ministry of Health has decided to direct Covid-19-infected patients to treatment facilities or intermediate care centres closest to their residences for the necessary treatment, it was announced yesterday (17). It added that the decision was taken so as not to distance patients unnecessarily from their families, considering the severe stress that affects both parties when an individual becomes infected with the virus. The decision had been taken during the meeting of the Special Action Task Force Review Committee which was held yesterday morning, chaired by Minister of Health Pavithra Wanniarachchci and attended by State Minister of Primary Health Care, Epidemics, and Covid Disease Control Sudarshani Fernandopulle. The committee has also decided to provide necessary medical equipment and assign health staff, including doctors and nurses, to the treatment centres currently being constructed by various government and non-government organisations apart from the Health Ministry, and to direct staff from hospitals and health centres with extra staff to these Covid treatment centres. 


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