PHASES OF CORONAVIRUS ISOLATION

ISOLATION CENTRE AND DIFFERENT PHASES OF ISOLATION ROOMS

ISOLATION

According to the CDC, isolation is the act of separating a sick individual with a contagious disease from healthy individuals without that contagious disease in order to protect the general public from exposure of a contagious disease. However, Special equipment is used in the management of patients in the various forms of isolation. These equipment most include items of personal protective equipment (gowns, masks, and gloves) and engineering controls.

FOUR PHASES IN ISOLATION CENTRE

Many forms of isolation exist.

There are mostly four phases of isolation room within isolation centre, each of these phases have different characters. Isolation centre is the entire structure and within the isolation centre (structure) there are isolation rooms which are tag as isolation phase in this article.

PHASE ONE: SELF ISOLATION.

Self-isolation is a kind of isolation where an individual stays at home in order to help curtain the spread of a virus and to checkmate whether an individual have a virus or not. This is the kind isolation undertaken by Nigeria and other global community during the outbreak of coronavirus. In Nigeria, Kano declare a seven weeks plus lock down, in Lagos a month plus, in Kaduna two months and many other states who went on lock down in order to ensure self-isolation.  Through this self-isolation method the global community was able to control and detect the individual that contracted the virus.

Self-isolation, seclusion or home isolation is the act of voluntarily quarantining oneself to prevent infection of oneself or others. The practice became notable during the COVID-19 pandemic. Key features are: staying at home separating oneself from other people, for example, trying not to be in the same room as with other people at the same time and asking delivery drivers to leave items outside for collection after shopping.

PHASE TWO: SUSPECTED CASES (CONTACT ISOLATION).

This is the phase that are suspected to have come in contact with those that are visibly identified with the virus, at this stage this group of people are kept in one isolation room . This group of people doesn't show any symptoms yet, they look healthy, move about in their daily routine but were kept in a room to be observed in case of any health challenges related to the virus. This is done in order to control the virus, incase those the infected people came in contact with became infected with the virus also. Contact isolation is used to prevent the spread of diseases that can be spread through contact with open wounds.

PHASE THREE: CONFIRMED CASES

These are group of people that have been tested positive to the virus. This group of people has started showing symptoms of the virus and has been brought under treatment. This group of people may be responding to treatment depending on age, genotype and the level in which the virus has weaken the immune system before treatment commences. The treatment is done through the help of medical doctors mostly virologists. Some will get treated and will be discharged and those whose cases became worst are transferred to the next isolation centre (the intensive isolation room)

PHASE FOUR: CHRONIC CASES (INTENSIVE ISOLATION)

Intensive care at this stage of the virus the patient case has become chronic, that is, the virus has come to worst stage because the patient no longer responds to treatment. The person will be transferred to the higher isolation room. This patient is placed on oxygen and life assistant equipment’s to help him fight the virus. At this point, the patient exhibits the full symptoms of the infections. Such as; seizure, difficulty in breathing and many other symptoms. The patient at this point might be at the point of death and may take miracle for the patient to survive