The Department of Health in Abu Dhabi stressed the necessity of registering cases eligible for domestic isolation in the system of the Abu Dhabi Center for Public Health, in order for the center’s team to provide them with the main requirements, support them during the isolation period, and provide smart watches to follow them.
And the department stated that the treating physician must take the decision to isolate the patient with "Covid 19" at home, based on the preliminary examination and test or upon a confirmed diagnosis, and he can allow his discharge from the hospital to home isolation in case symptoms improve, and based on the clinical situation, to prevent Pressure is being placed on health facilities, ensuring maximum use of resources, as well as ensuring the sustainability of health services.
The department has specified, on its official website, criteria that must be met to take the decision to isolate the sufferer «Corona» at home, including that the patient be an adult (over the age of 18 years), while the child or infant is allowed to be isolated in case the parents are educated, they can take care of them and follow up the situation His health is in isolation, and if one or both parents and one or more children are injured at home, and they do not suffer from chronic diseases. It is also possible to isolate the injured and have no symptoms, or they have mild symptoms, and there are no risk factors, and people of determination who need home care, and that there is a responsible and educated person committed to implementing home isolation and treatment when necessary, in addition to the need for the home condition to allow isolation in a room Single, well ventilated and separate bathroom.
She pointed out that there are categories of patients that prevent their isolation at home, including children (less than 18 years), and those over the age of 60, and patients who suffer from severe illness or critical conditions, such as unstable patients with pneumonia, pregnant women, after childbirth, and patients Who suffer from mental illness.
The list includes elderly patients with multiple chronic diseases, in addition to patients with underlying cardiac defects.
Doctors in the isolation hospitals emphasized that the criteria for ending domestic isolation depend on the patient's clinical condition and laboratory tests, so that he does not have a fever or any respiratory symptoms.
A patient with PCR is monitored after seven days, as long as the result is positive. When it becomes negative, it must be confirmed by another test after 24 hours. In the event that the results are negative and the patient does not have a fever or any respiratory symptoms, home isolation can be stopped, indicating that in the case of two consecutive tests over a period of more than 24 separate hours, the patient was clinically stable without the presence of active complaints, is not contagious, and begins Procedures to end domestic isolation.
Fines
The list of violations, fines and administrative penalties issued by a decision of the Council of Ministers stipulated the violation of anyone who does not adhere to the home and stone in private establishments, or who refuses to implement health instructions with a fine of 50 thousand dirhams, and everyone who does not adhere to the instructions of quarantine or re-examination according to instructions The deadlines specified, with a fine of 50 thousand dirhams as well.
Anyone who refuses to install the Smart Home Electronic Tracking System application violates a fine of 10,000 dirhams.
The penalties included violating anyone who refrains from carrying the smart electronic device, causing it to be destroyed or lost, or disrupting the network, with a fine of 10 thousand dirhams, while charging the value of the electronic means if it is lost or damaged.
As for those who penetrate the applications or smart means for tracking quarantine cases, destroying, deleting or destroying the program, system or website or obtaining information or data related to it, without any right, or initiating any of these actions, a fine will be imposed on him. Its value is 20 thousand dirhams, with a value of the damages.
Also, a fine of 10,000 dirhams was imposed on anyone who refuses to report the loss, damage or malfunctions of tracking in the smart electronic medium, or the network, within 24 hours from the time of losing the carrier.