The Ministry of Health is working to identify institutions within communities in informal settlements that will act as areas where Covid-19 patients from the slums will be isolated.
Speaking from Afya House on Wednesday, Health CAS Dr Rashid Aman said the institutions will have to meet the set recommendations to qualify as a place where a Covid-19 patient can get care.
"Home-based care in informal settlements where households share small spaces will require identification of institutions within the communities institutions that meet the recommendations for providing such care," Dr Aman said.
Dr Aman says that the decision to embrace home-based care was necessitated by the rising number of Covid-19 cases that are making it impossible to handle them in the already flooded health facilities.
"As you are aware due to our rising numbers of Covid-19 cases it is increasingly becoming unattainable to isolate the patients in our health facilities for management and care," Dr Aman stated.
