Contact Tracing Solutions
GMED will provide the solutions needed for effective contact tracing protocols.
GMED Contact Tracing Services
The World Health Organization has urged the countries to scale up the testing, isolation and contact tracing of COVID-19 patients in order to combat the pandemic. Successful control rests upon timely diagnosis of the infected cases, isolation and treatment. But containment will not be achieved without tracing the close contacts of the infected cases and isolating them to keep the infection out of the general population.
If testing and tracing strategy is successfully implemented, the speed of the epidemic can be slowed down. Such success is largely dependent upon the speed and coverage of the tracing process.
Speed and efficiency becomes particularly important in this case when some people without producing symptoms can be infectious. Often a small army of experienced and trained staff is necessary to implement contact tracing in a given community. Without appropriate capacity a contact tracing project can soon become unmanageable.
We can design and implement such a successful plan for your organization or community. You can delegate it to us or partner with us to achieve the desired results.
“Public health professionals have employed contact tracing for many types of infectious disease — including HIV — for decades. What makes contact tracing harder for COVID-19 is that we are now needed to trace exposure of a respiratory virus that can be spread through airborne particles.” ….
…“You need an army of public health experts putting boots on the ground and going to talk to each of these contacts.”
Contact Tracing Principles:
• Contact tracing is part of the process of supporting patients with suspected or confirmed infection.
• In contact tracing, public health staff work with a patient to help them recall everyone with whom they have had close contact during the timeframe while they may have been infectious.
• Public health staff then warn these exposed individuals (contacts) of their potential exposure as rapidly and sensitively as possible.
• To protect patient privacy, contacts are only informed that they may have been exposed to a patient with the infection. They are not told the identity of the patient who may have exposed them.
• Contacts are provided with education, information, and support to understand their risk, what they should do to separate themselves from others who are not exposed, monitor themselves for illness, and the possibility that they could spread the infection to others even if they themselves do not feel ill.