The Corona Virus Control and Control Center in Dubai has identified 3 procedures to deal with contacts or cases where symptoms appear (Covid-19), and the Dubai Health Authority has obligated all health facilities licensed by it, to adhere to them, according to an official circular issued by the end of last week .
The Center clarified during the second edition of the "Cofeed-19 Patient Flight Document", that there are 3 procedures that must be adhered to, in order to deal with those in contact with patients (Covid-19), or the cases in which it appears wider include «patient registration, download the smart application and register in it, Patient evaluation for symptoms (Covid 19).
According to the document, the patient is registered according to two cases, the first if the patient is a visitor to a health facility, and symptoms are shown (Covid 19), in which case he is registered in the “safety” system in the government health facility, and also registered in the “immunity” system in Private health facility, and the second case includes contacts who are identified through the investigation process, which is registered according to the system followed by the public health team, and directing to register in the smart application «COVID-19 DXB», and the responsibility for implementing this step depends on the health facility ( Governmental or private) and the Medical Response Center, provided that the patient arrives at the health facility and immediately identifies the contacts during the investigation.
With regard to the second procedure for "downloading and registering the smart application", it is verified that contacts or cases showing symptoms (Covid-19) download the application COVID-19 DXB Smart App, and register in it to activate the follow-up feature during the quarantine, and it undertakes The medical authority that is based on following up the case and the person who is in contact with or who has symptoms, when registering while in the health facility.
The document identified steps that must be implemented in the stage of "patient evaluation, in terms of the presence of symptoms Covid-19", especially if it is confirmed the emergence of symptoms of the disease, most notably "test work (Covid-19), download the application" COVID-19 DXB ", send samples to the laboratory Approved, obtaining the results of PCR (Covid-19) test, verification and telephone evaluation of the confirmed case, retesting Covid 19 (PCR), termination of isolation or quarantine ».
The Corona Virus Control and Control Center in Dubai has put in place standard procedures to be applied to contacts or cases that show symptoms, and residents returning to the country from abroad, is to apply the quarantine, if the test result is negative, where the person, whether coming from the country from abroad, must Or in contradiction to (confirmed case (Covid 19)) confirmed, commitment to complete a period of 14 days in quarantine, the person is given the choice of home quarantine with clarification of the necessary instructions, and in the event that the conditions of home quarantine apply to the person, but he refused to apply it, he will bear the cost of staying in a facility Quarantine, and the medical response center, "the verification team", is responsible for implementing this procedure, provided that it occurs immediately after the negative result appears.
According to the document, in the event that no symptoms appear during the quarantine period, the quarantine period ends after the completion of the fourteenth day, which begins from the day of arrival for travelers, and for contacts, the count begins two days before the symptoms appear on the confirmed condition, or from a working day (Covid-19) test positive for the confirmed case in the event that no symptoms appear on it, and the investigation team begins to inventory the contacts directly after recording the confirmed case of (Covid-19) in the system of "immunity".