This file photo shows the entrance to the Dr Ruth Pfau Civil Hospital Karachi. Photo by Fahim Siddiqi / White Star
KARACHI: Amid growing number of Covid-19 cases mainly in the city, the Dr Ruth Pfau Civil Hospital Karachi on Monday halted all its key functions, shut outpatient departments (OPDs) and suspended surgeries till further orders, as a doctors’ body warned that the highly transmissible Delta variant accounted for almost 100 per cent of the cases in the city.
The two developments came as a grim reminder of the fast changing situation in the city where the infection rate had already crossed 23pc mark during the last week.
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Call to resume health workers vaccination
National
April 19, 2021
KARACHI: Hardly 10 of the doctors and healthcare providers who lost their lives due to Covid-19 in Pakistan were directly involved with the treatment and management of the disease, the Pakistan Medical Association (PMA) has claimed, demanding the resumption of the coronavirus vaccination to all healthcare workers without any delay.
“Of the 192 doctors who lost their lives in Pakistan, around 182 were ordinary doctors and healthcare providers who contracted the disease from asymptomatic patients,” PMA General Secretary Dr Qaiser Sajjad told The News on Sunday.
“Every healthcare provider in Pakistan is a frontline healthcare worker because they are risking their lives by treating known as well as asymptomatic patients of Covid-19.”
Karachi
April 19, 2021
Hardly 10 of the doctors and healthcare providers who lost their lives due to Covid-19 in Pakistan were directly involved with the treatment and management of the disease, the Pakistan Medical Association (PMA) has claimed, demanding the resumption of the coronavirus vaccination to all healthcare workers without any delay.
“Of the 192 doctors who lost their lives in Pakistan, around 182 were ordinary doctors and healthcare providers who contracted the disease from asymptomatic patients,” PMA General Secretary Dr Qaiser Sajjad told The News on Sunday.
“Every healthcare provider in Pakistan is a frontline healthcare worker because they are risking their lives by treating known as well as asymptomatic patients of Covid-19.”
Karachi
March 7, 2021
The Pakistan Medical Commission (PMC) said on Saturday that it can’t allow below-merit students to gain admission to medical colleges and become medical professionals on the basis of their parents’ wealth, and announced establishing a fund for meritorious students who can’t afford medical education.
“Around 8,000 students of Sindh secured over 60 per cent marks in the recently held Medical & Dental College Admission Test [MDCAT], but they weren’t able to gain admission to private medical colleges because their parents couldn’t afford it,” PMC President Dr Arshad Taqi told a webinar.
“Now we’re being asked to allow admission to those students who were below-merit, just to fill the seats of private medical colleges, which is unacceptable to us!”