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ISLAMABAD: Pakistani docs combating the novel coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic acquired assist within the type of a visiting staff of Chinese language medical specialists. Whereas welcome, the shortage of enough translators implies that these specialists have been unable to switch their information to native docs.
A staff of eight Chinese language medical specialists had arrived in Islamabad over the weekend.
They purpose to assist Pakistan deal with with the Covid-19 pandemic which has up to now claimed some 21 lives throughout the nation and positively contaminated some 1,700 others.
These medical specialists visited numerous well being centres, quarantine and isolation services for Covid-19 sufferers on Monday.
Medical doctors, nurses, paramedical workers and even nurses huddled across the Chinese language specialists whereas sustaining protected distance, eager to share their experiences and be taught from their Japanese neighbours on how they managed to regulate the contagious virus.
However when the Chinese language medical specialists began conversing, some native medical workers appeared misplaced, unable to know what was being mentioned in Chinese language.
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The Chinese language medical specialists, working in three shifts at completely different medical services in Islamabad, have now approached their embassy to resolve the difficulty of translators and interpreters.
In the meantime, speaking concerning the challenge, Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) Senator and a member of the Senate Standing Committee on Defence Manufacturing Lt Gen Abdul Qayyum acknowledged that if the federal government knew concerning the arrival of the Chinese language medical staff prematurely, why did they not prepare for interpreters to be hooked up with these visiting docs in order that their information might be transferred to native docs and most lives might be saved.
“People do not know in which direction are we heading and they are asking where is the government,” he mentioned.
He appreciated the gesture of Chinese language President Xi Jinping of sending the staff of medical specialists together with medical help to Pakistan in such tough situations.
Lt Gen Qayyum added that Islamabad ought to be taught from the Wuhan mannequin to deal with the virus by constructing bigger hospitals, coaching extra docs relatively than simply focussing on procuring and making facemasks.
Revealed in The Specific Tribune, March 31st, 2020.
