Karachi: The Sindh government has completed the construction of Pakistan’s biggest mass COVID-19 vaccination facility in Karachi. It took just a week to complete.
The facility constructed at the Karachi’s Expo Centre will also be unique in the sense that it will vaccinate people round-the-clock.
The facility is likely to be inaugurated on Sunday (May 9). It will vaccinate up to 30,000 people in a day. Special arrangements are being made to vaccinate the woman visitors to the centre.
The mass vaccination facility has been established on the directives of Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah. Sindh government’s Works and Services Department started work to establish the facility on 48,000 square feet area of the Expo Centre on May 2.
Sindh tightens Covid restrictions ahead of Eid
Covid task force meeting orders all inoculation centres to function round the clock
Sindh CM Syed Murad Ali Shah addressing a press conference. PHOTO: CM HOUSE
KARACHI:
Amid rising coronavirus cases in the province and Eidul Fitr just round the corner the Sindh government announced on Thursday a new set of Covid-19 restrictions.
The decision to tighten pandemic-related restrictions was taken during a meeting of the coronavirus task force, presided over by Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah.
During the meeting, it was decided that restaurants will be allowed to offer take-away services till Maghrib prayers, after which only the home delivery service will be available. This will be in effect starting tomorrow until Sunday.
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Sindh dismayed over CCI’s decision
MQM-P voices objections but welcomes fresh count at year’s end
Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah. PHOTO: PPI
KARACHI:
The ruling Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) and other mainstream parties of Sindh expressed dismay on Monday over the Council of Common Interests’ decision to approve the controversial 2017 census results.
After three years of controversy and difference of opinions, the matter was dragged before the CCI - a constitutional forum that resolves issues between federation and provinces - last week. The meeting, chaired by Prime Minister Imran Khan, failed to reach a consensus, however.
Three health facilities should remain with Sindh, says JPMC board member
Karachi
April 10, 2021
Mushtaq Chhapra, one of the four members of the board of governors (BoG) formed by the federal government to oversee the affairs of the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre (JPMC), has hinted at quitting the BoG if the tug of war between the federal and provincial governments over the control of the JPMC and two other hospitals of Karachi continues.
He has also stated that two other members of the board may also quit if the conflict is not resolved. Talking to The News on Friday, Chhapra, a philanthropist, said he and two other members of the board believed that three health facilities of Karachi the JPMC, the National Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases (NICVD) and the National Institute of Child Health (NICH) should remain in the provincial control. “We are not political people and we only joined the board of governors constituted by the national health services ministry for i