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PDMA orders for Coronavirus-related equipments

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

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Fund for COVID-19 related researches instituted

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,

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JPMC needs resources to meet bigger challenges

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

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‘Full preparedness needed to fight coronavirus’

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