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Chances are if you are in infected with #COVID19 & have mild symptoms, you will be asked to isolate at home. You are not turning breathless but running a mild fever. You freak out. What next? And enrol for a private hospital's home care package. Here is what follows - Thread -

During the course of reporting this story, we found a patient paying close to Rs 40K for home care package, drugs, diagnostic tests, more tests, CT scans while not developing any complications. But here's what beat every thing. A single set of blood test cost Rs 20k!

We found a wide range of prices at which leading hospitals are offering homecare from Max to Medanta, Fortis and Apollo, the range of costs is as wide as between Rs 4500 to over Rs 21000 (but lab tests and drugs cost additionally of course) Graphic by
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Delhi is seeing an incredible surge in cases and government's home monitoring services are falling woefully short. One in Two #COVID19 +ve persons will not receive even the first triaging call. State has outsourced it's home calls to Dabur backed HCAH for Rs 2.5 crore for 3 mnths

In today's [free] story for the @TheKenWeb we have unpacked the homecare protagonists in India's #COVID19 care - private hospitals, digital health companies charging sky-high prices to state governments for making phone calls, and patients stuck in middle the-ken.com/story/covid-ho…

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While digging deeper into the state - private company collaborations for homecare, we stumbled upon companies like HCAH, CallHealth & Portea got together to share a slice of Karnataka pie, backed by Swasth - a telemedicine alliance of start ups, we earlier wrote about first

Read the story about Swasth Alliance we investigated @TheKenWeb here the-ken.com/story/the-elit… @Singh10Seema @tam_arund

And while we were at it, we also discovered a volunteer-led model in @Projectstepone which operates in collaboration with 16 states to provide triaging services in states like Delhi, Karnataka where they do the 1st call to #COVID patient and home monitoring in Mumbai, Bihar etc.

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