gurugram the health department has decided to distribute pulse oximeters to covid19 patients recovering at home so that they can monitor their blood oxygen saturation levels continuously many covid patients are asymptomatic or develop symptoms at a very late stage and deteriorate suddenly leaving no time for medical intervention an oximeter will show a drop in oxygen saturation levels if the lungs get infected even if there arent any symptoms it gives a patient crucial time to reach a hospitalpatients in home isolation are not under continuous monitoring like in a hospital which makes an oximeter an important device the health department will distribute 2000 pulse oximeters the delhi government had last month announced a similar move for all home isolation patients dr virender yadav gurugram chief medical officer said we will distribute 2000 pulse oximeters that the patients will have to return on recovery this will help them assess their condition on a daily basis and inform us immediately in case of an emergency rapid response teams have already received 200 oximeters and the rest will follow soon he added that the department is aiming to conduct 2000 antigen tests daily we get less than 1 critical patients every day and are trying to reduce the number further our teams are also coordinating with patients daily to monitor their health status he saidthe department also started free counselling sessions for home isolation patients on wednesday we have initiated two sessions from 11am to 1pm and from 5pm to 7pm doctors are available to answer queries we are also distributing booklets in containment zones to spread covid awareness he saidmeanwhile 116 patients tested covid positive on wednesday taking the citys tally to 5463 one death was reported taking the toll to 92 on the same day 117 people also recovered bringing the number of active cases down to 1293