By Mukhtar Alam: The Sindh Institute of Urology and Transplantation (SIUT), Karachi, has detected 207 coronavirus positive cases among people who attended its coronavirus clinic commenced operations on March 18. A SIUT communication on April 17 gave to understand that the infection rate among the
By Mukhtar Alam: At a time when the medical practitioners and political leaders fear that the coronavirus may wreak further damages to humanity and pose new challenges to the healthcare settings, the latest Sindh health department’s updates represented a more frightening picture of the ongoing
By Mukhtar Alam: Though media was the major source of their information on coronavirus disease, half of the people lately surveyed by the Aga Khan University (AKU) research team in rural and urban were found unaware that diabetics, smokers and asthmatics were at a higher
By Mukhtar Alam: A Sindh Health department committee constituted to examine the experimental use of plasma therapy in the case of COVID-19 patients in the province in future met, with provincial health minister Dr Azra Fazal Pechuho in chair, on April 15. A source privy
By Mukhtar Alam: Sindh, which has entered an extended phase of lockdown until April 30, reported another 150 new cases of coronavirus on April 15, its highest one day tally since February 26 when the first corona patient of Sindh was identified at Karachi. According
By Mukhtar Alam: Karachi, with 1,003 confirmed cases, was the second city, after Lahore, in the context of coronavirus in the country having reported a total 5,837 cases so far, with 96 deaths. According to the federal government’s COVID-19 dashboard, updated at 5 pm on
By Mukhtar Alam: The representatives of medical and law practitioners in Karachi on April 14 urged the government to expand corona screening and testing facilities to district level at the earliest. They were jointly giving a press briefing about the existing conditions of healthcare workers
By Mukhtar Alam: After staggering number of high cases during the past few days, Karachi saw a significant decrease in its daily reporting of new COVID-19 cases on April 13 when the authorities confirmed one more related death, taking the death toll to 30 overall
By Mukhtar Alam: Amidst apprehensions that authorities have stopped conducting coronavirus tests among population in the interior districts, the Sindh health department, on April 13, announced a two-prong action plan to check people belonging to tableeghi jamat in various districts of Sindh. The Sindh Health
By Mukhtar Alam: Referring to the frequency of the age of patients, the Sindh Chief Minister, Syed Murad Ali Shah, in a video message on April 12, remarked that the people of every age were being contracted to the coronavirus “Therefore we all have to