{"id":158597,"date":"2021-05-17T01:38:02","date_gmt":"2021-05-16T20:08:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=158597"},"modified":"2021-05-17T01:38:02","modified_gmt":"2021-05-16T20:08:02","slug":"triage-centre-starts-functioning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2021\/05\/17\/triage-centre-starts-functioning\/","title":{"rendered":"Triage centre starts functioning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>ITANAGAR, 16 May:<\/strong> The triage centre for Covid-19 has started functioning at Hotel Donyi Polo Ashok here.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The centre, run by the health department, will determine whether a Covid patient should be admitted to a hospital or a Covid care centre (CCC).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Informing this, ICR DMO Dr Mandip Perme said that people can come and get tested at the triage centre if they exhibit any kind of Covid-19 symptoms.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Blood tests and X-ray are done at the centre. Based on the report, the doctors will decide whether a patient will be sent to a hospital, a CCC or home isolation. Severe cases will be referred to the DCH in Chimpu,&#8221; informed Dr Perme.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He also said that vaccination of people between 18 and 44 years of age will start on Monday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Per day, 300 people will get vaccines in the ICR under this category. As we are in a containment zone and cases are on the rise, the number of people who can take vaccines have been kept low to avoid crowding,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Dr Perme urged the people to strictly stay at home and follow the containment order.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Containment zone has been declared to break the chain. People should not go out and maintain home isolation. This is the only way to break the chain link of Covid-19. Continue to wear masks, maintain social distancing and use sanitizer,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ITANAGAR, 16 May: The triage centre for Covid-19 has started functioning at Hotel Donyi Polo Ashok here. The centre, run by the health department, will determine whether a Covid patient should be admitted to a hospital or a Covid care centre (CCC). Informing this, ICR DMO Dr Mandip Perme said that people can come and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-158597","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158597\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}