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
KARACHI: The Sindh health department got its third COVID-19 testing facility functional in the interior of Sindh, at the Civil Hospital, Larkana on May 8. A communication of the department said that a bio-safety (level-3) laboratory has been prepared for the purpose where, initially, up
KARACHI: Sindh’s tally of COVID-19 infections and deaths continued spiking unabatedly as the provincial authorities confirmed 598 new infections, with five more deaths on May 8 when the community of doctors once again expressed its concern over the reported mismanagement at hospitals. The latest number
KARACHI: Amidst growing concern over healthcare delivery to COVID-19 patients kept in home isolation, the Sindh health authorities reported five more deaths among such patients on May 7 when 453 new infection cases were also registered across the province. A study of the relevant official