Essential kit for the home to help prevent hospitalisation in Covid times

Oxygen concentrators are expensive and can also be bought at the community level for emergency use. Other items can be kept at home for monitoring, prevention and cure

When you're fighting a battle as intense and prolonged as the Coronavirus pandemic, you must have enough ammunition and weapons in your armoury. With hospitals choked to capacity, the onus is on each one of us to stock the Covid essential kit at home.

Prashant Tandon, Co-founder & CEO, 1MG, says the absolute basics every Indian household must have now include a thermometer, a blood pressure machine and an infection-prevention kit consisting of a set of masks, gloves and sanitisers. Important devices include a glucose monitor and pulse oximeter. In case there is an existing condition in the family, you