KARACHI: Reporting a surge of COVID-19 infections among its registered patients, the Sindh Institute of Urology and Transplantation (SIUT) on May 14 revealed that presently it was diagnosing at least two such patients daily. The SIUT treating over 16,000 dialysis, transplant and cancer patients whose
KARACHI: The coronavirus (COVID-19) infections have continued to speed up in Sindh as the authorities confirmed detection of 758 more cases, up from 731 the day before, with nine relevant deaths on May 14. The province witnessed an increase of about 5,000 COVID-19 epidemic cases,
KARACHI: Amidst concerns over the relaxed COVID-19 related restrictions, health authorities confirmed surge in Karachi daily death toll from coronavirus, with 16 people losing their lives in 24-hours duration, on May 13, pushing the total fatalities to 234 in the province. According to official data,
KARACHI: A delegation of the Pakistan Medical Association (PMA), in its meeting with the Sindh Health Minister, Dr Azra Fazal Pechuho, on May 13, expressed concerns over the prevailing situation after relaxation in lockdown. “There are crowds of people everywhere including markets throughout the country,”
KARACHI: “The dedication with which nurses and midwives continue to work during these challenging times is exemplary and, in their absence, healthcare facilities will not be able to function properly,” Dr Azra Pechuho, Sindh Minister for Health and Population, observed while speaking at a virtual
KARACHI: At least one patient died of COVID-19 every 80 minutes in Sindh as the health authorities confirmed as many as 18 coronavirus related fatalities in the last 24 hours ending at 8 am on May 12, pushing the tally of such deaths to 218
KARACHI: Sindh reported its first death among the COVID-19 positive patients living in the age brackets of zero to nine years on May 11, as a three-year-old girl from Hyderabad lost her life at a Karachi hospital, taking the overall fatality toll to 200 for
KARACHI: In its efforts to tackling COVID-19 disease, Sindh has been able to increase its laboratory tests further as the health authorities on May 10 declared that another 4,215 people were tested during the last 24 hours, out of which 709 were found positive for
KARACHI: Sindh, unable to see its COVID-19 curve flattened, got a big jolt again on May 9 when the authorities confirmed detection of 1,080 new infections, an all days’ highest figure in all the provinces and territories of the country. Earlier, Punjab had reported the
KARACHI: Apparently unnerved by the federal government’s decision of easing out the coronavirus-related restrictions further across the country, the health policy executors in the Sindh government and the community of doctors working in the public and private sectors observed in Karachi on May 9 that