Doctors demand greater resources at hospitals to deal with COVID-19

By Mukhtar Alam
(Pakistan News & Features Services)

The leaders of the Pakistan Islamic Medical Association (PIMA) at a press conference on June 3 at the Karachi Press Club, called the authorities to review the hospitals, particularly those located in Karachi where the COVID-19 load was extraordinarily high.

“The hospitals need ventilators and other medical facilities, improved security arrangements in the wake of increasing events of altercation and violence involving doctors, hospitals staff and patients attendants,” they pointed out, adding that the governments could not make preparations to combat the lethal virus despite passage of about four months, while the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) was not up to the mark as far as fact and figures and its monitoring aspects were concerned. 

According to them the new isolation facility at the Karachi Expo Centre was not being fully utilized. Those who spoke at the press conference included Dr Misbahul Aziz, Prof Dr Suhail Akhtar and Dr Jalal Akbar.