By Mukhtar Alam: Anticipating that the testing for the Coronavirus will rise in the coming days in the city, the Karachi Mayor, Wasim Akhter, has urged the Sindh government to designate any of the public sector hospitals located in the central and western districts of
By Mukhtar Alam: The Provincial Disaster Management Authority (PDMA), Sindh, through World Bank assisted Sindh Resilience Project, has ordered medical equipment including 100 ventilators, 200 patient monitors, 15 mobile X-ray units, Personal Protection kits for over 15,000 medical professionals and over 150,000 surgical masks, according
By Mukhtar Alam: The overall rate of Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic in Sindh was 9.50% on March 28 as compared to 9.43% the previous day while there was no change in the Sukkur pilgrims which stood at 7.76%. People have been somewhat relieved to see the
By Mukhtar Alam: ISLAMABAD: Pakistani authorities on Wednesday launched a research initiative aimed at addressing the coronavirus crisis in the country. Pakistan, which reported its first two corona positive cases – one at Karachi and another in Gilgit-Baltistan — on February 26, has 1,022 corona positive cases,
By Mukhtar Alam: The Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre (JPMC), the biggest public sector tertiary health care facility in Sindh, is in dire need of more resources to cope with the bigger challenges. “The government health facilities are pretty good as far as the availability of
By Mukhtar Alam KARACHI: At a time when the Sindh government has moved for a partial lockdown in the province in the wake of fast spread of coronavirus (Covid-19), experts have stressed the need for invigorating available healthcare facilities in the public sector as well