BYO - Build Your Own Safe, Secure & Healthy Room to HELP Stop the Spread of Infectious Disease. -

• Should be well ventilated and air conditioning if present needs to be disabled.
• The room should be close to a toilet that can be dedicated for patients only or in extreme situations, a bucket placed within the examination room
• Remove clutter and unnecessary furniture.
• Examination couch
• 2 Chairs
• Facilities for hand washing with soap and hot water, alternatively alcohol hand gel
• Telephone (ideally, or adequate mobile signal)
• Notice for patients as to why they are isolation and how they can reception for help without leaving the room (see patient in isolation document)
• Facemasks and vomit bowls
• Tissues and contaminated waste disposal bags
• Digital thermometer (if available) and clothes peg type pulse oximeter.
• Bottled water
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