Social media grp flooded with patient queries | Aurangabad News – Times of India

Aurangabad: A special WhatsApp group formed by health authorities for the benefit of Covid-19 patients in home isolation is getting flooded with common and uncommon queries.
The group has reached membership limit of 256 within hours of its launch. Some non-target beneficiaries seem to have joined the platform out of curiosity.
Professor with geriatrics department at Government Medical College and Hospital (GMCH), Dr Mangal Borkar, on Saturday said that the WhatsApp group was serving as an effective platform for patients to get their doubts addressed.
“Right from quarantine period to diet intake and medication to post Covid care, home-isolated patients are asking different queries. We also received queries from expected and lactating mothers, who are home-isolated. The WhatsApp group, in short, is proving an effective platform for health education to public,” she said.
Borkar, a former head of medicine department at GMCH, said the option of using Facebook and other social media is being explored to educate home-isolated patients considering WhatsApp group getting full.
“We expect that patients completing their home-isolation period will leave the group to make way for others,” she added.
For those unable to join WhatsApp group, the health authorities have also facilitated mobile numbers 09665986302, 09096540840, 09987528024, 09152126263, 08275303956 for counselling between 11 am and 1 pm.
As per official data, around 2,801 Covid patients were home-isolated within municipal limits of Aurangabad , out of total 8,403 active cases.

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