Min instructs hospitals to discontinue precautionary COVID testing of asymptomatic patients

PTI, Feb 24, 2022, 10:08 AM IST

Karnataka, state Health Minister K Sudhakar informed that all government and private hospitals in the state have been instructed to discontinue precautionary COVID-19 testing of asymptomatic patients.

Taking to Twitter the minister wrote, “All government and private hospitals in the State have been instructed to discontinue precautionary Covid 19 testing of asymptomatic patients prior to hospitalization, surgeries, scanning, and other medical procedures.”

All government and private hospitals in the State have been instructed to discontinue precautionary Covid 19 testing of asymptomatic patients prior to hospitalisation, surgeries, scanning and other medical procedures.#COVID19 #COVID #testing pic.twitter.com/D3mHORp6gx

— Dr Sudhakar K (@mla_sudhakar) February 23, 2022

“This shall also include those patients who were earlier Covid-19 positive and have since recovered and transferred to the earlier non-Covid ward for continued treatment,” said the letter that the Minister shared in his tweet.