While the government has stopped buses from plying on the roads, this has put extra pressure on Qingqi rickshaws, resulting in violation of social distancing rules. Fahim Siddiqi/White Star
KARACHI: While the Covid-19 situation in the city continues to pose a serious threat to the health infrastructure, with sustained pressure on certain government health facilities being the ‘first choice’ of patients, several other facilities remain under-utilised, it emerged on Tuesday.
The Aug 2 data of the health department showed that the Sindh Infectious Disease Hospital and Research Centre the entire facility is dedicated to Covid-19 patients had no space left for patient admission in the ICU with only one bed vacant in its high dependency unit (HDU).
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In this file photo, a health worker gives a hepatitis vaccination to a flood affected boy at a makeshift school on higher ground in southern Sindh. AFP
KARACHI: Health experts and medical scientists have warned that the hepatitis B and C viral infections are a “pandemic within a pandemic”, which are claiming three to four times more lives in Pakistan than Covid-19. They called for immediate measures for the prevention, screening and treatment of the disease.
They were speaking at an awareness session held on Tuesday at the Karachi Press Club in collaboration with Pakistan GI and Liver Diseases Society (PGLDS) in connection with World Hepatitis Day 2021, to highlight the global burden of viral hepatitis and to call for its elimination from the world by 2030. They stressed the need to have equal focus on hepatitis B and C.
KARACHI: A 38-year-old man was shot at and wounded by armed robbers on main Sharea Faisal.
The Saddar police said in a statement that Shakir Arshad was shot when he put up resistance to robbers near Gora Qabristan. He was shifted to the Liaquat National Hospital for treatment.
Later, Saddar SHO Arshad Afridi claimed that it was not a robbery related incident as after initial medical treatment the wounded man left the hospital and switched off his mobile phone.
Published in Dawn, July 26th, 2021
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