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ITANAGAR, 7 Jun:<\/strong> The state government on Monday launched a web- and android-based platform, ‘Nishtha tele-track’, for monitoring and management of mild and asymptomatic Covid-19 cases under home isolation across Papum Pare district and the Itanagar capital region.<\/p>\n The model has been developed in partnership with the US Agency for International Development’s (USAID) health system strengthening project Nishtha\/Jhpiego, a health department release said.<\/p>\n Health Secretary P Parthiban, who launched the model\/platform through the virtual mode, said: “This is an end-to-end integrated, tech-enabled home-based care model for monitoring, care and management of asymptomatic and mild Covid-19 cases under home isolation.”<\/p>\n USAID Health Office Director Sangita Patel highlighted the need to enhance access to quality healthcare for all sections of the society in remote and un-reached areas of the country.<\/p>\n The launch of Nishtha tele-track would help in decongesting the health facilities in two high-burden districts – Papum Pare and the ICR, Patel said.<\/p>\n Jhpeigo Country director Dr Bulbul Sood thanked the state government for collaborating with the USAID-Nishtha for rolling out this initiative, which Dr Sood said would further help in building a stronger and responsive health system to address the needs of the communities.<\/p>\n “Tele-track is a comprehensive, integrated tech-based home care model for persons under home isolation. This web- and android-based platform will act as an enabler for effective monitoring and tracking of Covid-19 patients and will have functionalities for recording vitals of home isolated cases on a daily basis, provision of regular and need-based SOS telemedicine consultations with a pool of physicians and digital reporting and generation of system alerts in case a patient develops symptoms and requires a referral,” the health department said.<\/p>\n “Technical features of this platform include daily tracking and monitoring of vitals for 10 days with alerts on pre-decided indicators, SOS 24\/7 tele-consultation for sick patients, remote monitoring and management by nursing staff or medical officers, tele-counselling on nutritional and mental health wellbeing, and hosting risk communication materials\/audiovisuals for standardized messaging,” it said.<\/p>\n Health Services Director Dr M Lego, Joint Secretary Mamata Riba and State Surveillance Officer Dr L Jampa were present during the launch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" ITANAGAR, 7 Jun: The state government on Monday launched a web- and android-based platform, ‘Nishtha tele-track’, for monitoring and management of mild and asymptomatic Covid-19 cases under home isolation across Papum Pare district and the Itanagar capital region. The model has been developed in partnership with the US Agency for International Development’s (USAID) health system […]<\/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-160466","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\/160466","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=160466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160466\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}