Community care for COVID-19 in the constraint resources is the need of the hour to provide health facility to the last man of the queue

Abstract

In COVID era, the developing countries like India are facing big problems and fail to provide health care to needy patients. The main reason for this failure is limited health resources and overpopulated states. Considering these, it is need of the hour to establish community care for COVID-19 in every district. The trained health worker will be instrumental in categorizing COVID-positive patients in three different zones that are green, yellow, or red on the basis of mild, moderate, or severe clinical symptoms, respectively. All such patients may be treated under the guidance of doctors of the telemedicine department of the tertiary center with close monitoring under CCTV camera and other telemedicine software. The only limitation of this model is that we need to shift sick patients (red) to higher center. The estimated cost is approximately 2,29,000 only to establish one center.

Clinicodemographic Profile and Clinical Outcome of Children Presenting to Telemedicine Center at Institute of National Importance of India: A Prospective Observational Study

“…The successful clinical outcomes of community care under the concept of telemedicine during COVID-19 were observed in Bihar State [ 16 ]. Similarly, in our study, telemedicine services proved to be cost-effective during the pandemic, facilitating early access to healthcare services for remote populations.…”