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Kohima, Oct. 2 (EMN): Ever since the quarantine centre at Meriema was converted into Covid care centre, the facility has been receiving numerous patients classified as asymptomatic cases of Covid-19.
At present, there are around 103 Covid-19 patients including civilians and security forces personnel who are admitted in different blocks of the facility. However, the infected security forces personnel are being looked after by their own establishments.
A medical officer from the Covid care centre, while speaking to Eastern Mirror, informed that all the patients are keeping good and that they are "very co-operative so far”.
"Thankfully everything is going on well right now," she said, adding that the patients from the facility are recovering well and also getting discharged.
It was informed that among the patients, there are also children; and that their parents or guardians are accompanying them in some blocks.
Unlike K Badze quarantine centre, which has been converted into a paid facility, the patients in Covid care centre at Meriema are availing the medical and other facilities free of cost.
The medical officer informed that two catering groups deliver breakfast, lunch and dinner daily while they have employed seven cleaners in the facility to take care of the garbage.
Sanitation workers from Kohima Municipal Council (KMC) arrive to collect the garbage from the facility every Tuesday and Friday, she informed.
"They (inmates) are advised not to litter their rooms and also to keep their environment clean," the doctor said.
The movement of the patients are strictly restricted, the doctor said.
Meanwhile, the symptomatic Covid-19 patients are admitted in the isolation wards at Naga Hospital Authority Kohima (NHAK).