LAHORE: Medical professionals and docs are additionally the goal of coronavirus as two docs performing duties at DG Khan quarantine centre have been examined constructive for coronavirus.
Poor preparations and non-availability of non-public protecting tools at quarantine centres has put the lifetime of docs and nursing employees in danger amid coronavirus.
Earlier, one physician and nurse already grew to become a sufferer of coronavirus whereas three nurses are additionally suspected to be sufferers of the coronavirus.
The Younger Docs Affiliation (YDA) Punjab President Dr Salman Haseeb alleged that inefficient insurance policies of Punjab Well being Minister Dr Yasmeen Rashid have elevated coronavirus constructive instances amongst medical professionals.
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Sources revealed that at a time when numbers of corona sufferers are growing in Punjab, the state of affairs can be upset for these docs and paramedical staffers and nursing communities which were performing providers at isolation wards and quarantine centres arrange by Punjab authorities.
Reportedly, two docs performing duties at D G Khan Quarantine Centre have been additionally examined constructive for coronavirus.
The spokesman of the Main and Secondary Well being Division stated that Dr Usama and Dr Saba have been examined constructive for coronavirus whereas each have been shifted to the isolation ward. “Their health is stable and they are now under treatment,” stated the spokesman of Main and Secondary Well being Division.
He stated that Dr Usama and Dr Saba have been performing duties with out private protecting tools like all docs in DG Khan who’ve been working underneath comparable circumstances.
“We have prepared masks on our own due to the non-availability of kits,” stated DG Khan YDA President Dr Nouman. “We demand the government to kindly see the sensitivity of coronavirus and provide us kits,” he added.
With the emergence of latest instances amongst docs, YDA once more criticised the Punjab Well being Minister Dr Yasmeen Rashid.
It’s pertinent to say that at varied hospitals younger docs are already absent from duties as they already opposed the well being minister over poor preparations in Punjab concerning the services given to sufferers and docs at isolation wards.
“Dr Yasmeen Rashid is completely responsible regarding the increase of coronavirus among doctors,” stated Dr Haseeb. He maintained that earlier, one physician and nurse grew to become a sufferer of this virus and now new instances at D G khan has been constructing rigidity among the many docs’ group.
“Our doctors are performing duties without kits and in poor arrangements. It is the negligence of health minister as she had three months to do arrangements but she failed,” stated the YDA Punjab president.
In the meantime, the sufferers of coronavirus are additionally growing in Punjab and new instances at Mianwali, Nankana Sahib have additionally been declared constructive after their assessments.
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A spokesman of Main and Secondary Well being Division said that now a complete of 419 sufferers of coronavirus are in Punjab together with 207 Sufferers in DG khan Quarantine Centre and 19 confirmed instances in Multan.
The spokesman highlighted that 104 instances are in Lahore, 22 in Gujrat, eight in Gujranwala, 19 in Jhelum, 14 in Rawalpindi, one in Attock, one in Nankana Sahib, two in Mianwali, three in Multan, 5 in Faisalabad, three in Mandibahudin, one in Narowal, one in Rahim Yar khan and one case is in Sargodha.
“Moreover, three patients died in Punjab while the government is providing possible health facilities to patients at isolation wards,” stated the spokesman.
Revealed in The Specific Tribune, March 28th, 2020.
